Arthur Tappan Pierson, the Glossary
Arthur Tappan Pierson (March 6, 1837 – June 3, 1911) was an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, missionary and writer who preached over 13,000 sermons, wrote over fifty books, and gave Bible lectures as part of a transatlantic preaching ministry that made him famous in Scotland, England, and Korea.[1]
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55 relations: Abolitionism in the United States, Adoniram Judson Gordon, Arthur Tappan, Believer's baptism, Bible, Binghamton, New York, Birth name, Bright's disease, C. I. Scofield, Charles Spurgeon, Christian revival, Clinton, Oneida County, New York, Congregationalism, Day-age creationism, Delavan Leonard Pierson, Detroit, Dwight L. Moody, England, Eschatology, Evangelicalism, Evangelism, Faith mission, Fort Street Presbyterian Church (Detroit), Fundamentalist–modernist controversy, George Müller, Green-Wood Cemetery, Hamilton College, Horace Grant Underwood, Indiana, Indianapolis, John Mott, Keswick Convention, Korea, Methodism, Metropolitan Tabernacle, Missionary, Native Americans in the United States, New Testament, Pew, Philadelphia, Pietism, Postmillennialism, Premillennialism, Presbyterianism, Pyeongtaek University, Robert Elliott Speer, Rutgers University, Samuel Marinus Zwemer, Scofield Reference Bible, Scotland, ... Expand index (5 more) »
- 20th-century Presbyterian ministers
Abolitionism in the United States
In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).
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Adoniram Judson Gordon
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Arthur Tappan
Arthur Tappan (May 22, 1786 – July 23, 1865) was an American businessman, philanthropist and abolitionist.
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Believer's baptism
Believer's baptism or adult baptism (occasionally called credobaptism, from the Latin word credo meaning "I believe") is the practice of baptizing those who are able to make a conscious profession of faith, as contrasted to the practice of baptizing infants.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.
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Binghamton, New York
Binghamton is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County.
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Birth name
A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth.
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Bright's disease
Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that are described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis.
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C. I. Scofield
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (August 19, 1843 – July 24, 1921) was an American theologian, minister, and writer whose best-selling annotated Bible popularized futurism and dispensationalism among fundamentalist Christians. Arthur Tappan Pierson and C. I. Scofield are 19th-century American non-fiction writers, American evangelicals, American religious writers and Presbyterian writers.
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Charles Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher.
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Christian revival
Christian revivalism is increased spiritual interest or renewal in the life of a Christian church, congregation or society with a local, national or global effect.
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Clinton, Oneida County, New York
Clinton (or Ka-dah-wis-dag, "white field" in Seneca language) is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States.
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Congregationalism
Congregationalism (also Congregationalist churches or Congregational churches) is a Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestant Christianity in which churches practice congregational government.
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Day-age creationism
Day-age creationism, a type of old Earth creationism, is an interpretation of the creation accounts in Genesis.
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Delavan Leonard Pierson
Delavan Leonard Pierson (1867–1952) was an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, editor and writer. Arthur Tappan Pierson and Delavan Leonard Pierson are 20th-century Presbyterian ministers, American evangelicals and American sermon writers.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Dwight L. Moody
Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 26, 1899), also known as D. L. Arthur Tappan Pierson and Dwight L. Moody are 19th-century American non-fiction writers, American religious writers and American sermon writers.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Eschatology
Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself.
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
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Evangelism
In Christianity, evangelism or witnessing is the act of preaching the gospel with the intention of sharing the message and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Faith mission
Faith mission is a term used most frequently among evangelical Christians to refer to a missionary organization with an approach to evangelism that encourages its missionaries to "trust in God to provide the necessary resources".
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Fort Street Presbyterian Church (Detroit)
The Fort Street Presbyterian Church is located at 631 West Fort Street in Detroit, Michigan.
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Fundamentalist–modernist controversy
The fundamentalist–modernist controversy is a major schism that originated in the 1920s and 1930s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
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George Müller
George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England.
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Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery is a cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City.
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Hamilton College
Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, New York.
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Horace Grant Underwood
Horace Grant Underwood (19 July 1859 – 12 October 1916) was a Presbyterian missionary, educator, and translator who dedicated his life to developing Christianity in Korea.
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Indiana
Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.
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John Mott
John Raleigh Mott (May 25, 1865 – January 31, 1955) was an evangelist and long-serving leader of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF).
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Keswick Convention
The Keswick Convention is an annual gathering of conservative evangelical Christians in Keswick, in the English county of Cumbria.
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Korea
Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.
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Methodism
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.
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Metropolitan Tabernacle
The Metropolitan Tabernacle is a large independent Reformed Baptist church in the Elephant and Castle in London.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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New Testament
The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.
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Pew
A pew is a long bench seat or enclosed box, used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church, synagogue or sometimes a courtroom.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Pietism
Pietism, also known as Pietistic Lutheranism, is a movement within Lutheranism that combines its emphasis on biblical doctrine with an emphasis on individual piety and living a holy Christian life.
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Postmillennialism
In Christian eschatology (end-times theology), postmillennialism, or postmillenarianism, is an interpretation of chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation which sees Christ's second coming as occurring after (Latin post-) the "Millennium", a messianic age in which Christian ethics prosper.
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Premillennialism
Premillennialism, in Christian eschatology, is the belief that Jesus will physically return to the Earth (the Second Coming) before the Millennium, heralding a literal thousand-year messianic age of peace.
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Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.
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Pyeongtaek University
Pyeongtaek University is a private research university located in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.
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Robert Elliott Speer
Robert Elliott Speer (10 September 1867 – 23 November 1947) was an American Presbyterian religious leader and an authority on missions. Arthur Tappan Pierson and Robert Elliott Speer are American religious writers.
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Rutgers University
Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.
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Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Samuel Marinus Zwemer (April 12, 1867 – April 2, 1952), nicknamed The Apostle to Islam, was an American missionary, traveler, and scholar. Arthur Tappan Pierson and Samuel Marinus Zwemer are 19th-century American non-fiction writers, American evangelicals and American religious writers.
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Scofield Reference Bible
The Scofield Reference Bible is a widely circulated study Bible.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Student Volunteer Movement
The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was an organization founded in 1886 that sought to recruit college and university students in the United States for missionary service abroad.
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Thomas Spurgeon
Thomas Spurgeon (20 September 1856 – 20 October 1917) was a British Reformed Baptist preacher of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, one of the fraternal twin sons of the famous Charles Spurgeon (1834–92).
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Union Theological Seminary
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (shortened to UTS or Union) is a private ecumenical liberal Christian seminary in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, affiliated with Columbia University.
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Waterford, New York
Waterford is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States.
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Winsted, Connecticut
Winsted is a census-designated place and an incorporated city in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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See also
20th-century Presbyterian ministers
- A. Donald Macleod
- Albert Capwell Wyckoff
- Alfred Gandier
- Amalric-Frédéric Buscarlet
- Arthur Silver Morton
- Arthur Tappan Pierson
- B. B. Warfield
- Carl Christian Reindorf
- Carl Henry Clerk
- Delavan Leonard Pierson
- George W. Schwab
- Gottlieb Ababio Adom
- Hatta Shūzō
- Isaac Ababio
- John Azumah
- John Franklin Bruce Carruthers
- John Norman Maclean (minister)
- John Ortberg
- Kao Chun-ming
- Ng Poon Chew
- Nicholas T. Clerk
- Nicholas Timothy Clerk
- Peter Hall (minister)
- R. B. Y. Scott
- R. C. Sproul
- R. J. Rushdoony
- Ray and Anne Ortlund
- Richard Pinch Bowles
- Rose Akua Ampofo
- Salomão Barbosa Ferraz
- Tallis Obed Moses
- Theophilus Opoku
- W. J. King
- W. Stanford Reid
- William Wilson Elwang
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Tappan_Pierson
Also known as Arthur Tappin Pierson.
, Student Volunteer Movement, Thomas Spurgeon, Union Theological Seminary, Waterford, New York, Winsted, Connecticut.