This essay could have been entitled" ‘A Methodist, A Presbyterian and a Congregationalist'; ‘An Arminian, A Calvinist and a Liberal'; or ‘A Systematiser, An Apologist and a Prophet'. For the men who concern us are William Burt Pope (1822-1903), Robert Watts (1820-95) and Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1838-1912). They were all highly respected by their denominations in their day, and each was entrusted with the task of ministerial training. Watts was Professor of Theology at the Presbyterian College, Belfast from 1866-95; Pope was Theological Tutor at Didsbury Methodist College from 1867-86, when ill-health forced his resignation; and Fairbairn, who left Scotland and the Evangelical Union in 1877 to become Principal of Airedale Independent College was in 1886 installed as the first Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. All but forgotten by their own, an investigation of their work will nevertheless reward us with a fascinating glimpse of the influences at work upon nineteenth-century theology; it will throw into relief their diverse and temperamentally different reactions which are the more interesting because of their relative closeness as nonconformists; and it may serve to remind us that some of the philosophico-theological issues which beset contemporary theology have their roots, if not their final solutions, in the period represented by our triumvirate
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机译:这篇文章的标题可能是“卫理公会,长老会和公理会”,“亚美尼亚人,加尔文主义者和自由主义者”或“系统化者,道歉者和先知”。与我们相关的人是威廉·伯特教皇(1822-1903),罗伯特·沃茨(Robert Watts)(1820-95)和安德鲁·马丁·费尔贝恩(Andrew Martin Fairbairn)(1838-1912)。他们在各自的教派中都受到高度尊重,并且每个人都被任命为部长级培训的任务。 1866-95年在贝尔法斯特长老会学院获得神学博士学位; 1867-86年在健康不佳迫使他辞职时,波普在迪兹伯里卫理公会学院担任神学讲师; 1877年离开苏格兰和福音派联盟的费尔贝恩成为该学院的校长Airedale独立学院成立于1886年,当时是牛津曼斯菲尔德学院的第一任校长,尽管被自己遗忘了,但对他们工作的调查却使我们对工作对十九世纪泰洛尔的影响产生了令人着迷的印象。 ogy这将使他们的多样化和在气质上不同的反应变得轻松,由于它们相对不服从主义者的相对亲近,因此更加有趣。这或许可以提醒我们,困扰我们当代神学的一些哲学神学问题,即使不是最终解决方案,也都源于我们三生一体的时代。
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