… compelled them to suppress their fellow-countrymen or forfeit their lives. One man by the name of Oncken, a citizen of Varel in present Schleswig-Holstein, decided to resist the tyrannical French and campaigned to overthrow the occupational forces. Napoleon’s spies, however, were everywhere and Onckenwas compelled to flee to England to carry on his work of liberation in exile. On January 26th, 1800, a son was born to the ex-patriate whom, in God’s providence, he was never to see. The …
Posts Tagged Johann Gerhard Oncken
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… James Usher (1580-1656): The Light of Ireland
Jan Laski (1499-1560): 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 …
… After the 1848 Revolution piety again took preference over patriotism and Dissenters such as J. G. Oncken and Evangelicals of the Establishment such as F.W. Krummacher condemned the British Liberalism from their pulpits which had served political ends in Schleiermacher’s day. British believers must become used to the fact that what they call German Liberalism is seen in Germany as growing on British soil. However, the British were themselves contaminated by Dutch Liberalism of a previous …
… They stand in direct lineage with Keil, Delitsch, Hengstenberg, Krummacher, Kohlbrügge and Oncken. Zinzendorf, who had an entirely different ecclesiology, was never part of them but admired their missionary and evangelistic Spirit.
… in German churches found little hearing abroad. Rationalistic German studies such as those of Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752-1841) and Ferdinand Christian Bauer (1762-1860), though denounced by Germany’s academic, pietistic and Reformed sources, were presented to the English-speaking churches as epitomes of ‘enemy thinking’. Eichhorn and Bauer, however, did not pioneer textual research. Beza (France and Geneva), Elzevir, von Mastricht and P. Wetstein (Netherlands), Walton, Fell, …
… was first coined in the disputations between Luther, represented by Melanchthon and Johann Agricola. Melanchthon taught that the moral law was necessary to promote a conviction of sin and repentance, whereas Agricola (termed an Antinomian by Luther) believed that repentance came by the working of the Holy Spirit in the sinner and is thus the fruit not of the Law but of the Gospel. Fuller adopted Agricola’s view and believed that sinners repent on hearing the gospel and then …
