John stott biography pdf directory

1. Men with a Message: An introduction to the New Testament and its writers
The original 1954 edition which was the Bishop of Londons Lent book for 1954, was published
by Longmans Green. This edition is O/P, but a second and illustrated edition, completely
rewritten by Stephen Motyer, is now available (Angus Hudson/Eerdmans, 1994; Candle Books,
1997 & 2001) under the title The Story of the New Testament. First USA edition Eerdmans, 1964
under title Basic Introduction to the New Testament. ELT Special edition 1996 under Men with a
Message and also Candle Books, 1997.
2. Fundamentalism and Evangelism (Crusade Booklet, 1956; published by Eerdmans as a book
in 1959) now O/P.
3. Basic Christianity (IVP, 1958, revised 1971; Eerdmans, 1958, revised 1971). An evangelistic
book outlining the evidence for the deity of Christ and the way of salvation. Translated into at
least 63 languages.
4. Your Confirmation (Hodder, 1958; a rewritten and illustrated edition, with Study Guide, was
published by Hodder in 1991, Baker/Angus Hudson co-edition, 1991 & 1999, and Family
Christian Stores edition, 2001, all under the title Christian Basics). Part of the Christian
Commitment series. Various sub-titles: A Handbook of Christian Faith (Hodder, 1991), A
Handbook of Beginnings, Beliefs and Behaviour (Baker, 1991), Beginnings, Beliefs and
Behavior (Baker, 1999 & FCS, 2001). Also, Hodder/Angus Hudson co-edition under Your
Confirmation A Christian Handbook for adults, 1991. Paperback text only edition published
in 2003 by Monarch (UK) and Baker (USA).
5. What Christ Thinks of the Church: Expository addresses on the first three chapters of the
Book of Revelation (Lutterworth, 1958; Eerdmans, 1958 & 1972) A revised and illustrated
edition was published in 1990 by Word (UK), and by Harold Shaw (USA). Also Angus
Hudson, 1990 & 1995. Paperback text only edition published in 2003 by Monarch (UK) and
Baker (USA).
6. The Preacher's Portrait: So

“Stott, John R. W.,” Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2d edition, Walter A. Elwell, ed. (Baker Academic, 2001) Stott, John R. W. (1921-2011). Anglican clergy, author of numerous theological and missiological texts and biblical commentaries, regarded as one of the most influential global evangelicals of the twentieth century and advocate of an socially enlightened (or awakened) evangelical witness. During his career of more than fifty years at All Souls, Langham Place, London, Stott served as both a local pastor and worldwide ambassador of evangelical mission and unity in an area of greater visibility and reawakened unrest for evangelicals. Stott was instrumental in reforming the role evangelical play within the Anglican communion, as well as in evangelicalism’s engagement with, rather than separation from, theological liberalism (illustrated in his exchange with liberal David Edwards in Evangelical Essentials). In this respect, Stott represents a pietistic and doctrinal ethic of personal conversion, invoking the evangelical awakenings reminiscent of Jonathan Edwards’ theological defense of religious affections and George Whitefield’s advocacy for tangible expressions of conversion in practical or social demonstrations. As a representation of his preaching career as much as an apology for his traditional doctrinal convictions linked with broader evangelical social interest, Stott produced numerous commentaries of books of the Bible. Based largely on his sermons, he negotiated the line between reaffirming the intellectual integrity of evangelicalism’s preoccupation with the details of how the Bible expresses Christian identity – the message of Bible books focused on key doctrines (the kind of phrase repeated in Stott’s Bible summaries often generously labeled commentaries) served as stable markers to mollify doubters within evangelicalism and demonstrate the relevance of Christian faith for newcomers to social consciousness (alb

English Anglican presbyter and theologian (1921–2011)

John Robert Walmsley StottCBE (27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011) was a British Anglican priest and theologian who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. In 2005, Time magazine ranked Stott among the 100 most influential people in the world.

Life

Early life and education

John Robert Walmsley Stott was born on 27 April 1921 in London, England, to Sir Arnold and Emily "Lily" Stott (née Holland). His father was a leading physician at Harley Street and an agnostic, while his mother had been raised Lutheran and attended the nearby Church of England church, All Souls, Langham Place. Stott was sent to boarding schools at eight years old, initially to a prep school, Oakley Hall. In 1935, he went on to Rugby School. While at Rugby School in 1938, Stott heard Eric Nash (nicknamed "Bash"), director of the Iwerne camps, deliver a sermon entitled "What Then Shall I Do with Jesus, Who Is Called the Christ?" After this talk, Nash pointed Stott to Revelation 3:20, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." Stott later described the impact this verse had upon him as follows:

Here, then, is the crucial question which we have been leading up to. Have we ever opened our door to Christ? Have we ever invited him in? This was exactly the question which I needed to have put to me. For, intellectu

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Inside Story: The Life of John Stott. By Roger Steer. Nottingham: InterVarsity Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84474-404-6. 288 pp. £12.99. John Stott has been a fixture in evangelical circles. Roger Steer’s warm and well-constructed biography of Stott does a grand job of revealing why as it opens windows on a life well lived, in service to God and humanity. Although I knew Stott through his many influential books, I found that I really didn’t know the kind of life he lived. From his persistence in his calling in spite of early parental opposition, to his signal cooperation and abiding friendship with Billy Graham, his fast-tempo teaching trips to scores of climes and cultures, his long involvement with the Keswick and Urbana conventions, and his foundational role in the Lausanne Movement, almost every page of Steer’s book reveals nuggets that illumine not only this individual life, but also the state of the evangelical arm of the Church of England over a span of 60 years. There are two aspects of Steer’s work that I especially appreciate. First, the revealing of some of Stott’s personal habits and foci imparts wisdom that I and many other ministers would do well to take to heart: his commendable hospitality; his love for the spiritually lost and the materially and mentally disadvantaged; his commitment to training his parishioners for evangelism; his commitment to evangelical unity; his monthly ‘quiet day’ for reflection and renewal; his starting each day with an orienting, Trinitarian prayer; and his daily post-luncheon HHH, ‘horizontal half-hour’! Second, Steer effectively and nearly seamlessly weaves synopses of two of Stott’s most important books into the fabric of this book. Steer masterfully sketches I Believe in Preaching and The Cross of Christ such that the reader is left wanting more. If more biographers did this sort of thing, the ongoing impacts of the lives they d