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JOHN NELSON DARBY- PROPHETIC PIONEER PB

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  • ISBN 9781897913765
  • Author FIELD MARION
  • Pub Date 10/01/2008
Publisher Highland Books
John Nelson Darby: Prophetic Pioneer is a new biography of one of the most controversial and influential evangelical thinkers of 19th centu...
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John Nelson Darby: Prophetic Pioneer is a new biography of one of the most controversial and influential evangelical thinkers of 19th century Christianity who helped found the Brethren Movement. Did God call the Church to be an institution? The Reformation gave Europe national churches, but these came to disappoint enthusiastic believers as lacking commitment. Was the right exit policy simply to join 'free' presbyterian or congregational-type churches, as found, say, in America? By the 1820s, the more strategic thinkers felt not. Some followed Newman into Catholicism; other pre-charismatics advocated modern apostles who would recapture prophetic gifts; J N Darby was lead to the fierce conclusion that all churches, as man-made institutions, were bound to fail. The believer's true hope was the return of Jesus Christ. With others, Darby pioneered the informal association of believers, free of clergy and founded on radical holiness. Darby was a tireless traveller, talented linguist and Bible translator. His influence his still felt in systematic theology, missionary societies, para- and house-church movements, possibly even in US foreign policy towards the state of Israel.