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The Modern World (1800 AD-Onwards) (Evangelicals: John Stott)
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(4) John Stott (1921- )
1) He was born in 1921 to a secularist father and Christian mother, who took him into Sunday School at All Soul's Church, Langham Place, in London.
2) He studied first languages and then theology at Cambridge, gaining a double first. He trained for the Anglican ministry and was ordained in 1945, despite the opposition of his father.
3) He has become a leading Evangelical statesman. This was seen especially at the 1974 Lausanne Congress, where he played a leading role, chairing the drafting committee of the Lausanne Covenant. He is a prolific author and his books widely read.
4) He has written several major books as follows:
① Basic Christianity (1958)
It is intended to explain the Christian faith simply to the unconverted. About two million copies have been sold and it has been translated into over twenty-languages.
② The Cross of Christ (1986)
It is perhaps his weightiest volume, in which he expounds carefully the traditional doctrine that on the Cross of Christ bore in our place the punishment due for our sin.
③ Essentials (1988)
It is a 'liberal-evangelical dialogue' between Scott and his fellow Anglican David Edwards, who initiated this because he considered Scott to be 'the most influential clergyman in the Church of England during the twentieth century', apart from William Temple.
5) He declared publicly for the first time his view of the nature of hell. While firmly rejecting the idea that all will be saved (universalism) he holds to the view that the 'eternal punishment' faced by the lost is not unending suffering but culminates in total annihilation.
6) This declaration provoked an extended debate on this issue, ad a result of which the 'annihilationist' view is generally regarded ad an acceptable option for Evangelicals.
7) Stott has publicly considered the idea of annihilationism, which is the belief that hell is incineration into non-existence, rather than eternal conscious torment (the traditional Evangelical approach). This led to a heated debate within mainstream evangelical Christianity, with some writers criticising Stott in very strong terms.
8) In 2005, Time magazine devoted an issue to 'the lives and ideas of the world's 100 most influential people', among whom was John Sttot.
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