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See also:BRUCE, See also:ALEXANDER See also:BALMAIN (1831-1899) , Scottish divine, was See also:born at Aberargie near See also:Perth on the 31st of See also:January 1831. His See also:father suffered for his adherence to the See also:Free See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church at the Disruption in 1843, and removed to See also:Edinburgh, where the son was educated, showing exceptional ability from the first. His See also:early religious doubts, awakened especially by See also:Strauss's See also:Life of Jesus, made him throughout life sympathetic with those who underwent a similar stress. After serving as assistant first at See also:Ancrum, then at Lochwinnoch, he was called to Cardross in See also:Dumbartonshire in 1859, and to Broughty See also:Ferry in 1868. There he published his first See also:con,siderable exegetical See also:work, the Training of the Twelve. In 1874 he delivered his See also:Cunningham Lectures, afterwards published as The Humiliation of See also:Christ, and in the following See also:year was appointed to the See also:chair of See also:Apologetics and New Testament exegesis at the Free Church See also:College, See also:Glasgow. This See also:post he held for twenty-four years. He was one of the first See also:British New Testament students whose work was received with See also:consideration by See also:German scholars of repute. The See also:character and work of Christ were, he held, the ultimate See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof and the best See also:defence of See also:Christianity; and his tendency was to concentrate See also:attention somewhat narrowly on the historic Jesus. In The See also:Kingdom of See also:God (1889), which first encountered serious hostile See also:criticism in his own communion, he accounted for some of the See also:differences between the first and third evangelists on the principle of accommodation—maintaining that See also:Luke had altered both the See also:text and the spirit of his See also:sources to suit the needs of those for whom he wrote. It was held that these admissions were not consistent with the views of See also:inspiration professed by the Free Church. When the See also:case was tried, the See also:assembly held that the See also:charge of See also:heresy was based on a misunderstanding, but that " by want of due care in his mode of statement he had given some ground for the painful impressions which had existed."
Bruce rendered See also:signal service to his own communion in connexion with its service of praise. He was convener of the See also:committee which issued the Free Church hymn See also:book, and he threw into this work the same See also:energy and catholicity of mind which marked the See also:rest of his activities. He died on the 7th of See also:August 1899, and was buried at Broughty Ferry. His See also:chief See also:works, beside the above, are : The Chief End of See also:Revelation (Lond., 1881); The Parabolic Teaching of Christ (Lond., 1882); F. C. See also:Baur and his Theory of the Origin of Christianity and of the
New Testament Writings in " See also:Present See also:Day Tracts " (Lond., 1885) ; Apologetics, or Christianity Defensively Stated (Edin., 1892); St See also:Paul's Conception of Christianity (Lond., 1894); Expos: Gk. Test. (the Synoptic Gospels, Lond., 1897). With Open See also:Face (Lond., 1896); The See also:Epistle to the See also:Hebrews (Edin., 1899); The Providential See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of the See also:World, and the Moral Order of the World in See also:Ancient and See also:Modern Thought (See also:Gifford Lectures, 1896-1897;
Lond., 1897, 1899). (D.
End of Article: BRUCE, ALEXANDER BALMAIN (1831-1899)
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