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 (1896–1990), Professor für Neues Testament, Prediger und Autor

Topics: Church & Congregation, Witness & Mission, Justice & Commitment

James S. Stewart

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.

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