Quotes by James S. Stewart

James S. Stewart (1896–1990) — Professor für Neues Testament, Prediger und Autor · presbyterianisch · Schottland

James S. Stewart war ein schottischer presbyterianischer Pfarrer und Professor für Neues Testament an der Universität Edinburgh im 20. Jahrhundert. Er stand für eine streng christuszentrierte Predigtweise und betonte in seinen Schriften zur paulinischen Theologie vor allem die persönliche Glaubensverbundenheit mit Christus. Heutigen Bibellesern zeigt sein Werk eine Auslegungstradition, die wissenschaftliche Exegese mit seelsorgerlicher Praxis verbindet.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Church & Congregation, Grace & Redemption, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust, Hope & Confidence, Witness & Mission, Justice & Commitment

Quotes by James S. Stewart

Union with Christ – this is the sum and substance of the Christian’s status, the definition of his relationship to Jesus, the large reality in which all the nuances of his new being are embraced.

James S. Stewart

It is a tragedy that the Christian religion is in many minds identified merely with pious ethical behavior and vague theistic beliefs, suffused with aesthetic emotionalism and a mild glow of humanitarian benevolence. This is not the faith which first awakened the world like a thousand trumpets and made people feel it bliss in such a dawn to be alive. Men knew what Christianity really was – the entrance into history of a force of immeasurable range.

James S. Stewart

No man is truly awake today who has not developed a supra-national horizon to his thinking. No church is anything more than a pathetic pietistic backwater unless it is first and fundamentally and all the time a world missionary church.

James S. Stewart

Sources: stewartsociety.org, wikipedia.org

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