John Macgowan: Soldier, Baptist, Controversialist
Macgowan was well known for his hard-hitting and sometimes caustic defence of orthodox Christianity.
Macgowan was well known for his hard-hitting and sometimes caustic defence of orthodox Christianity.
Pearce died at what seemed to be a very young age, but, to many of those who knew him, he seemed to have condensed a lifetime of holy living and ministry into the decade that he was at Birmingham.
A church can be completely orthodox in its doctrine and still be missing something essential.
In his recent address to the various branches of the American government, our King, Charles III (1948–), spoke of feeling “the weight of history.” Speaking especially about the semiquincentennial—one might also call it by more obscure terms, such as the bisesquicentennial or the sestercentennial—of the founding of the American republic, he was calling to mind all of the momentous aspects of that event in the mid-1770s as well as historical details of the “special relationship” that has evolved since then between the United States and the United Kingdom. He was also reaching back, though, to such seminal documents as the...
1700 years ago, a council of bishops met in the city of Nicaea, summoned by Emperor Constantine to discuss and settle numerous issues. The most important issue on the table was the doctrine of God. Arius (250-336), an influential leader in Alexandria, taught that Jesus, the Son, was created and not equal to the Father. Arius popularised the tune about Jesus, “There once was a time when he was not.” At the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, Arius’s teaching was weighed next to Scripture, and he was condemned as a heretic. His theology was outside the bounds of Christian...