K. S. Latourette, The History of the Expansion of Christianity (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1938), vol. I, p. 240.
Ibid., vol. I, p. 241.
See, for example, H. R. Niebuhr, Christ and Culture (Faber, 1952); P. Brooks, The Influence of Jesus (Macmillan, 1903) and W. B. Carpenter, The Witness to the Influence of Christ (Archibald Constable, 1905).
Entitled One Solitary Life, but anonymous, this eloquent testimony has often been quoted, most recently by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, in his millennium message Jesus 2000.
M. A. Habig (ed.), St Francis of Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies (Herald, 1972), p. 301.
Ibid., p. 301.
Thomas of Celano, The Second Life of St Francis (J. M. Dent & Co., 1904), p. 521.
G. K. Chesterton, St Francis of Assisi (1923; Hodder and Stoughton, 23rd ed. 1943).
Ibid., p. 15.
Ibid., p. 17.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 189.
W. Barclay, The Gospel of Mark in The Daily Study Bible (St Andrew Press, 2nd ed. 1956), p. 138.
M. Hengel, Property and Riches in the Early Church (SCM, 1974), pp. 26–27.
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho a Jew, ch. 88, in Thomas Falls (ed.), Saint Justin Martyr, The Fathers of the Church (Catholic Press of America, 1977), vol. 6, p. 290.
A. Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (Longmans Green, 2nd and 3rd eds. 1886), vol. I, pp. 251–252.
Quoted by Revd I. Boseley, Christ the Carpenter, his trade and his teaching (Arthur H. Stockwell, n.d.), pp. 52–53.
See H. de Borchgrave, A Journey into Christian Art (Lion, 1999), pp. 173–174.
F. A. Rees, The Gospel in Great Pictures (Arthur H. Stockwell, n.d.), pp. 19–21.
Jesus the Carpenter and his Teaching by a Working Man (Mills and Boon, 1921), pp. 68–69.
Boseley, Christ the Carpenter, p. 15.
A. J. P. Taylor, English History 1914–1945 (OUP, 1965), p. 142, n. 3.
B. Holman, GoodOld George: The life of George Lansbury (Lion, 1990), p. 181.
Quoted in ibid., p. 174.
Ibid., p. 177.
Ibid., p. 18.
Ibid., p. 172.
Ibid., p. 187.
Ibid., p. 177.
J. Stalker, The Life of Jesus Christ (1879; T. & T. Clark, rev. ed. 1939), p. 21.
J. Paterson Smyth, A People’s Life of Christ (1921; Hodder & Stoughton, rev. ed. 1949), p. 59.
Matt. 9:36; 14:14; 15:32; 20:34; Mark 6:34; 8:2; Luke 7:13.
S. G. Browne, T. F. Davey and W. A. R. Thomson (eds.), Heralds of Health: The saga of Christian medical initiatives (CMF, 1985), p. 7. See also J. T. Aitken, H. W. C. Fuller and D. Johnson (eds.), The Influence of Christians in Medicine (CMF, 1984): ‘To the Christians belongs the credit of raising the social status and treatment of sick and handicapped persons in early times’, p. 170.
Aitken, et al., The Influence of Christians in Medicine, pp. 9–10.
A. D. Miller, An Inn Called Welcome: The story of the Mission to Lepers, 1874–1917 (The Mission to Lepers, 1965), p. 5. See also M. A. Habig (ed.), ‘St Francis of Assisi’, in English Omnibus of the Sources for the Life of St Francis (SPCK & Herald, 3rd ed., 1972). See also Matt. 10:8 ‘Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy...’
Father Auguste Pamphile, Life and Letters of Father Damien (CTS, 1889). See also Browne, et al., Heralds of Health, pp. 156–157.
Miller, An Inn Called Welcome, p. 11.
From his introduction to a little pamphlet he wrote entitled Lepers in India (1874; John F. Shaw, 1882).
P. Brand and P. Yancey, The Gift of Pain (Zondervan, 1993), p. 88.
See D. Clarke Wilson, Ten Fingers for God: Paul Brand’s biography (Hodder and Stoughton, 1966).
Brand and Yancey, The Gift of Pain, p. 323.
Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, The Gospel in Brief and What I Believe, 1882–4 (World Classics, No. 229, Oxford University Press, new ed. 1940), pp. 315–319.
Ibid., p. 323.
Ibid., p. 406.
Quotations from G. Woodstock, Gandhi (Fontana, 1972), pp. 24, 39, 67 and 85–86.
M. K. Gandhi, What Jesus Means to Me (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1959), p. 6.
J. Ellul, Violence (SCM, 1970), p. 15.
Martin Luther King, Jr, Strength to love (1963; Fontana, 1969), pp. 47–55.
W. B. Ryan, Infanticide, its law, prevalence, prevention and history (Churchill, 1862), p. 198. See also Plato’s Republic (OUP, 1993), V. 460 and Aristotle’s teaching about the secret destruction and disposal of weak or deformed babies, as documented by I. Smale in A History of Children (Silver Fish Publishing, 1998), vol. I, p. 80.
G. Milligan, Selections from the Greek Papyri (Cambridge University Press, 1910), p. 32.
W. H. S. Jones, The Doctor’s Oath: an Essay in the History of Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 1924), quoted by N. M. de S. Cameron in The New Medicine: Life and Death after Hippocrates (Crossway Books, 1991), p. 35.
Tertullian’s Apology, Chapter IX, in Allan Menzies (ed.), The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Eerdmans, 1973), vol. 3, p. 25.
A. E. Williams, Barnardo of Stepney: the father of nobody’s children (George Allen and Unwin, 1943), p. 7.
Ibid., p. 5.
Ibid., pp. 72–73.
Ibid., p. 106.
Ibid., p. 191.
Mrs Barnardo and J. Marchant, The Memoirs of the Late Dr Barnardo (Hodder and Stoughton, 1907), pp. 64–65.
Ibid., p. 273.
E.g. Gen. 18:4; 19:2; 24:32; 43:24; Judg. 19:21 and Luke 7:44.
E.g. 1 Sam. 25:41; John 13:1–17; 1 Tim. 5:10.
See G. A. Frank Knight, ‘Feet-washing’, in James Hastings (ed.), Dictionary of Religion and Ethics (T. & T. Clark, 1904), vol. 5.
B . F. Westcott, The Gospel According to St John (Murray, 1892), p. 192.
See P. A. Wright, The Pictorial History of the Royal Maundy (Pitkin Pictorials, 1966).
Calvin, The Gospel according to St John 11–21 (Oliver & Boyd, 1961), p. 60, comment on John 13:14.
C. W. Hall, Samuel Logan Brengle: Portrait of a Prophet (Salvation Army, 1933), p. 89. See also Richard Collier, The General Next to God (Collins, 1965), p. 72.
W. Clark, Samuel Logan Brengle: Teacher of Holiness (Hodder and Stoughton, 1980), pp. 18, 156.
C. W. Colson, Born Again (Hodder and Stoughton, 1976), pp. 278–279.
W. Axling, Kagawa (SCM, 1932), p. 51.
C. J. Davey, Kagawa of Japan (Epworth, 1960), p. 95.
Ibid., pp. 125–126.
Toyohiko Kagawa, Meditations on the Cross (SCM, 1936), p. 44.
Ibid., p. 104.
Ibid., p. 105.
Ibid., p. 90.
Ibid., pp. ix and 15.
Ibid., p. 95.
Toyohiko Kagawa, Christ and Japan (SCM, 1934), pp. 99–100, 108, 113.
Kagawa, Meditations on the Cross, p. 95.
J. Eareckson Tada, Joni (Zondervan, 1976).
Quoted by P. Yancey in Where is God When it Hurts? (Zondervan, 1977), p. 120.
J. Eareckson Tada, Heaven Your Real Home (Zondervan, 1995), p. 53.
W. Temple, Nature, Man, and God (Macmillan, 1934), p. 478.
Eareckson Tada, Heaven Your Real Home, p. 70.
Ibid., p. 51.
C. E. Padwick, Henry Martyn (IVP, 1922), p. 177.
The narrative of their romance is told by D. Bentley-Taylor in My Love Must Wait: the story of Henry Martyn (IVP, 1975).
J. R. C. Martyn, Henry Martyn (1781–1812), scholar and missionary to India and Persia: a biography, Studies in the History of Missions, vol. 16 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999), p. 108.
Padwick, Henry Martyn, p. 146.
Martyn, Henry Martyn, p. 108.
Padwick, Henry Martyn, p. 168.
Martyn, Henry Martyn, p. 128.
L. Newbigin, The Household of God: lectures on the nature of the church (1953; SCM, 1964), p. 25.
D. M. Paton (ed.), The Ministry of the Spirit: selected writings of Roland Allen (World Dominion Press, 1960), p. x.
R. Allen, Missionary Methods: St Paul’s or Ours? (1912; World Dominion Press, rev. ed., 1927). His other famous book was The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church, and the causes which hinder it (1927; World Dominion Press, 2nd ed., 1949).
Allen, Missionary Methods, p. 3.
Ibid., p. 115.
Ibid., p. 109.
Ibid., pp. 184–185.
Ibid., p. 185.
See e.g. Acts 14:22–23.
Allen, Missionary Methods, p. 194.
Paton (ed.), The Ministry of the Spirit, p. xv.
Ibid., p. xvi.
R. Allen, Pentecost and the World: the revelation of the Holy Spirit in the Acts of the Apostles (OUP, 1917), pp. 36, 88.
John Pollock, Shaftesbury, The Poor Man’s Earl (Hodder and Stoughton, 1986), p. 23.
Edwin Hodder, The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftes-bury KG, 3 vols. (Cassell, 1887), vol. 3, pp. 2–3.
Ibid., p. 8.
Ibid., p. 10.
Ibid., p. 12.
Ibid., p. 10.
Ibid.
Pollock, Shaftesbury, p. 172.
Quoted by G. T. Manley, The Return of Christ (IVF, 1960), p. 20.
R. Isaac and S. Wilberforce, The Life of William Wilberforce (London: John Murray, 1838), vol. 1, p. 149.
W. Wilberforce, Real Christianity, abridged and edited by J. M. Houston (1829; Multnomah Press, 1982), p. 89.
Ibid., p. 85.
Ibid., p. 3.
Ibid., p. 103.
G. R. Balleine, A History of the Evangelical Party in the Church of England (1908; Church Book Room Press, 1951), p. 118.
J. C. Pollock, Wilberforce (Lion, 1977), p. 27.
Ibid., p. 56.
K. Heasman, Evangelicals in Action: an appraisal of their social work in the Victoria era (Geoffirey Bles, 1962), p. 285.
R. C. K. Ensor, England 1870–1914 (OUP, 1936), pp. 137–138.
M. Hennell, John Venn and the Clapham Sect (Lutterworth Press, 1958), p. 207.
Ibid.
K. S. Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity, 7 vols. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1938–47), vol. 7, pp. 503–504.
S. C. Neill and N. T. Wright, The Interpretation of the New Testament 1861–1986 (1964; OUP, 2nd ed. 1988), p. 19.
