2023-05-05T02:00:39Z eprint https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/images/sitelogo.png https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/ 2022-06-17T11:45:40Z 2022-07-01T01:02:40Z https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/2019 这个项目在repository with the URL: https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/2019 2022-06-17T11:45:40Z

本研究是一个原始的和广泛的investigation of the development and influence of Scottish Presbyterian missions to the Jewish people in the period 1838-1852. Brief popular accounts of this story have been written, most notably David McDougal’s chronicle In Search o f Israel (London, T. Nelson, 1941). In addition several scholarly works have touched on the Jewish mission tangentially, these include the contributions of Addley, Palmer, Yeaworth, Kool, Chambers and Roxborogh. The first four scholars hold largely uncontroversial views of the Scottish Jewish mission, whereas the latter two require detailed response. Don Chambers’ 1971 Cambridge Ph.D. thesis Mission and Party in the Church of Scotland 1810-1843, holds that the Jewish mission was eccentric and a-typical of the mission schemes of the Church of Scotland. John Roxborogh’s 1999 study Thomas Chalmers: Enthusiast for Mission curiously neglects Chalmers’ enthusiasm for missions to the Jews. Both authors are challenged by a fresh evaluation of original sources: Roxborogh in chapter two and Chambers in chapter seven. The period 1838-52 was critical for the development of Scottish missions to the Jewish people. Although sympathetic interest in the Jews had become entrenched in the Church of Scotland in the preceding centuries, opportunity to practically engage in mission was not afforded until the formation of the London Society for the Promotion o f Christianity among the Jews in 1809. The subsequent withdrawal of the Scottish Presbyterians from the LSPCJ inhibited further involvement in mission until the decision of the 1838 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to establish a committee for the conversion of the Jews. The first phase of the mission terminated in 1852 with the expulsion of the missionaries from the Austrian domains, specifically from Hungary and Moldavia. In chapter one the roots of the mission are traced to certain general religious influences and the spiritual heritage descending from the Reformation via the ‘Second Reformation’ of the seventeenth century to the eighteenth century revival movements. Attention is paid in chapter two to the formation in 1838, by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, of a Jewish missionary committee. The influence of both the Edinburgh Christian Instructor and the establishment in 1809 of Scottish auxiliaries of the LSPCJ is considered. The roles of Robert Wodrow and Thomas Chalmers are evaluated. In chapters three to five the membership, remit and strategic contribution of the 1839 ‘Mission of Inquiry’ is analysed. A critical analysis of the key motivations behind nineteenth century Scottish mission to the Jews forms the substance of chapter six. The influence of Edward Irving, and the revival of interest in the fulfilment of Biblical prophecy is traced. An investigation is made of the millennial controversy between the premillennial theories of the Bonar brothers and the postmillennial views of David Brown. It is argued that eschatological factors were balanced by strong ethical considerations, particularly indebtedness to Israel as the source of the Scottish church’s rich spiritual heritage. In chapter seven, financial and other popular support for the cause is considered. Chapters eight to ten contain a detailed examination of the establishment of the European missionary work, particularly that of Daniel Edward at Jassy and Lemburg, and John Duncan and his team at Pesth (Budapest). The influence of the Disruption (1843) is traced, as well as the impact of the Hungarian revolution of 1848 and the subsequent expulsion of the missionaries in 1852. The relative success of these ventures is assessed. The study concludes, in chapter eleven, by demonstrating the influence of the mission on the revival of evangelical spirituality in the Hungarian Reformed Church, the establishment of the Jewish missions of other Presbyterian churches and the founding of the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews.

John Stuart Ross 2022-04-05T08:46:42Z 2022-04-05T08:46:42Z https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/1943 这个项目在repository with the URL: https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/1943 2022-04-05T08:46:42Z

本文探讨了使命宣言of Jesus in Mark 1:15: ‘The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel’. The statement will be examined from the perspective of the writer, Mark, who - it will be argued - crafted the statement as a rhetorical device to press his audience for a personal decision to accept Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God and as a call for them to be baptized. It will be argued that the mission statement was fully crafted by Mark rather than originating with the historical Jesus. The analysis examines the apocalyptic imagery that the writer invokes, and how he uses that imagery to charge a decision motif with tension and a call to action, prior to what was expected to be the imminent Parousia of Jesus. The statement in Mark 1:15 is examined from a textual, literary, and historical perspective, considering Mark’s literary style from a narrative perspective, his rhetorical goals, and the eschatological and apocalyptic expectations that were operating in the background at the time of the Gospel’s composition. Mark’s use of apocalyptic imagery for rhetorical purposes will be shown to be the product of his circumstances and of those experienced by his community during the first Jewish-Roman War. These circumstances led him to believe that the end of the age had come and that certain prophetic traditions regarding the ‘Day of the Lord’ were being fulfilled. This therefore led Mark to frame the mission statement as an imperative for early Christian believers to decide to commit themselves fully, through the act of baptism, to suffering discipleship and imminent death in the final moments before the return of Jesus.

Don Davis 2019-09-05T12:21:29Z 2019-09-05T12:21:29Z https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/1038 这个项目在repository with the URL: https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/1038 2019-09-05T12:21:29Z Uzaimah易卜拉欣 2019-08-23T12:56:15Z 2019-08-23T12:56:15Z https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/1032 这个项目在repository with the URL: https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/1032 2019-08-23T12:56:15Z Muhsin Akbas 2019-08-23T12:53:48Z 2019-08-23T12:53:48Z https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/1031 这个项目在repository with the URL: https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/1031 2019-08-23T12:53:48Z Muhammad Naim Omar 2014-10-16T16:47:49Z 2023-02-02T11:25:08Z https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/377 这个项目在repository with the URL: https://repository.www.guaguababy.com/id/eprint/377 2014-10-16T16:47:49Z

The need for this research grew out of the challenges faced by the writer in his involvement with Christian and Jewish perceptions of Paul and the impassioned response his writing on the law seemed to evoke. This paper investigates Galatians chapters 2 and 3 in an attempt to derive a slightly different reading of Paul‟s treatment of the law to that which permeates traditional Christian and Jewish theology. It briefly assesses historical sensitivities that may well have provoked the defense of Jewish identity discernable in covenantal nomism, the very issues Paul was attempting to address for Gentile covenant membership in light of Christ. Confined to this challenge, he commits to expositing the law‟s purpose, drawing conclusions on works-righteousness, faith and the inevitable outcome for Christian Gentile conformity to Jewish covenantal obligations. The paper assesses claims that Qumran had a works-righteousness policy representative of a universal Jewish system of works-righteousness, the significance of faith through the lens of Habakkuk 2:4, and Paul‟s attempt at expounding the law as the means of a „schoolmaster‟ until the advent of Christ. The discussion confines the Galatian argument to that which was originally contended, the insistence on Gentile conformity to Jewish covenantal nomism and not the commonly held Pauline affront to Jewish law in an attempt to correct universal Jewish apostasy. This assists in helping to relieve Paul of the persona of him rejecting every element of his national heritage visible in his „alleged‟ polemic against the law.

D.J. Lowe