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4 unusual facts about John Stott


Christian radicalism

John Stott (2010) The Radical Disciple: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling

First International Congress on World Evangelization

The drafting committee of the covenant was headed by John Stott of England.

Moral influence theory of atonement

The recent Evangelical theologian John Stott argued that penal substitution and the moral influence view can be harmonized to an extent.

Satisfaction theory of atonement

John Stott has stressed that this must be understood not as the Son placating the Father, but rather in Trinitarian terms of the Godhead initiating and carrying out the atonement, motivated by a desire to save humanity.


Christian views on Hell

Prominent evangelical theologians who have adopted conditionalist beliefs include John Wenham, Edward Fudge, Clark Pinnock and John Stott (although the last has described himself as an "agnostic" on the issue of annihilationism).

Church Society

Advocates of Protestant Anglicanism associated with the Society include J. C. Ryle, J. T. Tomlinson, W. H. Griffith-Thomas, Henry Wace, William Joynson-Hicks (Home Secretary), Geoffrey Bromiley, Philip Edgecumbe Hughes, J. I. Packer, Alan Stibbs, John Stott and Alec Motyer.

Stephen Sizer

In the Christian world, some of Sizer's writings have been commended by Christians who embrace Reformed covenant theology, including leaders and academics such as John Stott (Stott's essay "The Place of Israel" is included in Sizer's Book "Zion's Christian Soldiers?"), R. C. Lucas, Gary Burge, Gilbert Bilezikian, Stephen Travis, and Paul Copan.


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