Christoph Blumhardt (1842-1919)
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842-1919) was born at Möttlingen in 1842. Christoph Blumhardt, as his father, Johann Christoph Blumhardt, became known as a mass evangelist and faith healer. The...
View ArticleWhen Mr. Murray met a “young lady”
John Murray (1741-1815) Central to James Relly, John and Judith Murray, was the idea, that it is not our faith that makes Jesus our savior, but rather that our faith is a recognition of the fact that...
View ArticleReconciling Conflicting Convictions on the Sovereignty of God and the Freedom...
The following is a paper originally presented at a conference at International Baptist Theological Seminary (IBTS) in Amsterdam on how to reconcile conflicting convictions. The paper was also published...
View ArticleUniversal Reconciliation in the Roman Catholic Church – encouraging references
Through the centuries the Roman Catholic Church has periodically convened in councils, the first in AD 325 in Nicaea, and the last from 1962 to 1965 in Rome. This last council – the Second Vatican...
View ArticlePeter Böhler (1712-1775)
Peter Böhler (1712-1775) Peter (or Petrus) Böhler (1712-1775) was a German Moravian bishop and missionary to England and America. Böhler took part in the first great Protestant missionary movement...
View ArticleRobin Parry: The Perennial “Heresy”
Revd Dr Robin Parry is a clergyman in the Church of England and the author and editor of several books on Christian Universalism. Robin has kindly permitted me to bring an excerpt from his recently...
View ArticleNicolaus Zinzendorf: “By this his name all can and shall obtain life and...
Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700-1760), bishop of the Moravian Church and founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine I’ve recently posted on Peter Böhler — the Moravian bishop whose missional zeal was an...
View ArticleJeremiah White: “the Salvation of all Men is a done thing with God”
Jeremiah White (1629–1707) Jeremiah White (1629–1707), was a 17th-century Nonconformist minister and Puritan chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. During his years as a student at the University of Cambridge he...
View ArticleIgnatius on Christ’s True Passion (Epistle to the Smyrneans)
Ignatius of Antioch (d. c. 108) in the lion den. It is sometimes noticed that while the belief in a final restoration of all things was widespread in the first four or five centuries of the church,...
View ArticleSamuel Richardson (1602-1658)
NB: This is an updated version of an earlier post on Samuel Richardson. Samuel Richardson was an English Baptist. Richardson was one of the formative leaders of the early Particular Baptists as he...
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