Bengel’s Life
Bengel’s birth and upbringing
John Albert Bengel was born in Winnenden near Stuttgart on 24 July, 1687, the son of scholar-deacon Martin Albert Bengel. John’s father began to home-school John early but died of an epidemic fever when John was six. Then Louis XIV’s troops plundered and burnt down the Bengels’ home, destroying the Bengels’ valuable library. Concerning these hard times, John testified that at his father’s …
Posts Tagged Albert Dod
… The Early History of Pelagianism ; Original Sin ; and The Inability of Sinners. Albert Dod provides a paper written in 1835 entitled On Revivals of Religion ; John Woodbridge’s paper on Sanctification written in 1842 follows Dod and the book ends with an article by Thomas Cleland given in 1834 on Bodily Effects of Religious Excitements.
Hodge on Regeneration
Hodge’s first essay reviews Samuel H. Cox’s sermon Regeneration and the …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… The Pan-European Reformer
Johann Gerhard Oncken (1800-1884): Germany’s Baptist Pioneer
John Albert Bengel (1687-1752): The Father of Modern Biblical Scholarship (I-II)
John Brine (1703-1765) and His Contemporaries (I.II)
John Collet Ryland (1723-92): Evangelical Educator
John Davenant (1572-1641): The Jewel of the Church
John Durie (1596-1680): Defragmenter of the Reformation
John Foxe (1517-1587): The Acts and Monuments of the Church
John Gano (1727-1804): Preacher in the Spirit …
Henry Bullinger (1504-1575)
Aug 17
… mystics under Master Eckart and Johannes Tauler had settled in large numbers in Cologne and also Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas. Here, too, John Duns Scotus had breathed his last and was buried. This explains the mystical features in Cologne’s religion and the strife that went on between Aquinians who claimed that religion was a matter of logic and Scotians who made religion a product of the will.
Finding the truth in Jesus
Cologne was the only university in Germany to …
