Witness in Many Lands: Leadership and Outreach among the Brethren
Editor: Tim Grass
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There is recognition that the middle and recent years of the movement are at least as interesting as its origins. Many of the contributions to this volume reflect this welcome development. The influence of Brethren on Evangelicalism has been significant through their ecclesiology, their distinctive eschatological interpretations, their principle that Christian workers can and should ‘live by faith’, and the significant influence that individuals nurtured in the Brethren have had in other groupings and in parachurch bodies. These are among the themes explored in this volume of papers, They include a number on aspects of the history of the Brethren in Germany, a subject little known outside that country.
1. Stephan Holthaus, ‘Georg Müller (1805–98): His Life and Work’, 5–15
2. Michael Schneider, ‘“The extravagant side of Brethrenism”: The life of Percy Francis Hall (1801–84)’, 17–44
3. Berthold Schwartz, ‘J. N. Darby as Theologian, with special reference to his Understanding of the Relation of
Law and Grace’, 45–57
4. Stephan Holthaus, ‘Friedrich Wilhelm Baedeker (1823–1906): His Life’, 59–72
5. Ian Randall, ‘“Ye men of Plymouth”: C. H. Spurgeon and the Brethren’, 73–90
6. Crawford Gribben, ‘“The worst sect that a Christian man can meet”: Opposition to the Plymouth Brethren in Ireland and Scotland, 1859–1900’, 91–109
7. David J. Macleod, ‘Walter Scott: A Link in Dispensationalism between Darby and Scofield’, 111–31
8. Tim Grass, ‘Edmund Hamer Broadbent (1861–1945): Pilgrim Churchman’, 135–45
9. Neil Dickson, ‘William Edwy Vine (1873–1949) and Brethren Biblical Interpretation: A Case Study’, 147–60
10. Neil Summerton, ‘The Significance and Influence of George Henry Lang (1874–1958)’, 161–79
11. Neil Dickson, ‘Littoral Truth: The Mind of Robert Rendall (1898–1967)’, 181–94
12. Horst Afflerbach, ‘What can we learn from Erich Sauer (1898–1959)?’ 195–208
13. Daniel Herm, ‘Wiedenest: A Century of Influence in Europe, 1905–2005’, 211–25
14. Stephan Holthaus, ‘One Hundred and Fifty Years of the Brethren Movement in Germany’, 227–39
15. Tim Grass, ‘The Development of a Support Base for Overseas Mission in British Assemblies’, 241–61
16. Johannes Reimer, ‘From Berlin to Turkestan: Early Brethren Mission among Muslims of Central Asia’, 263–71
17. Andreas Liese, ‘The Brethren Movement in Germany during the National Socialist Era’, 273–87
18. Kovina Mutenda, ‘An Evaluation of the Impact of Christian Brethren Theology on Zambian Christian Brethren Churches’, 289–98
19. Daniele Pasquale, ‘The History of three Italian Brethren Camps and their Impact on Italian Assemblies’, 299–305