When there are few conversions under the ministrations of the church, and souls are perishing around her, unpitied and unhelped; when there is an evident suspension or withdrawal of those spiritual influences that are alone efficient to convince or to comfort; when there is a visible defection from acknowledged principle, or from attained piety, and a lukewarm formality usurping the place of a generous, devoted, living Christianity we say a revival is required.

John MacNaughtan (1807–1884), Presbyterianischer Geistlicher und Moderator

Topics: Church & Congregation, Witness & Mission

John MacNaughtan

John MacNaughtan (1807–1884) war ein schottisch-irischer presbyterianischer Geistlicher, der sich 1843 der Free Church of Scotland anschloss und 1861 Moderator der Presbyterianischen Kirche in Irland war. Er stand für die reformierte Orthodoxie sowie die damalige Erweckungsbewegung, geriet jedoch 1846 durch seine Verteidigung von Spendengeldern US-amerikanischer Sklavenhalter an die Freikirche und scharfe Angriffe auf Frederick Douglass in die Kritik. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er als Vertreter einer traditionsgebundenen, christuszentrierten Kanzelverkündigung des viktorianischen Protestantismus.

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