The Representative Women of the Bible

by George Matheson

Publisher:

A. C. Armstrong and Son

, 1907

Overview

Dr. Matheson portrays fifteen women of the Bible as representing different types of feminine qualities that are common to all ages. He illustrates how each woman passes through three periods of life: a period of innocence or unconsciousness, a period of conscious expansion, and a period of conscious or voluntary self-expression. About the Author George Matheson was born in 1842 in Glasgow and he was the eldest of eight. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated first in classics, logic and philosophy. In his twentieth year he became totally blind, but he held to his resolve to enter the ministry, and gave himself to theological and historical study. He started as an assistant pastor in 1866. His first ministry began in 1868 at Innellan, on the Argyll coast between Dunoon and Toward. He stayed 18 years. His books on Aids to the Study of German Theology, Can the Old Faith live with the New? and The Growth of the Spirit of Christianity from the First Century to the Dawn of the Lutheran Era, established his reputation as a liberal and spiritually minded theologian. Queen Victoria invited him to preach at Balmoral and she had his sermon on Job published.In 1886 he moved to Edinburgh, where he became minister of St. Bernard's Parish Church for 13 years. Here his chief work as a preacher was done. In 1879 the University of Edinburgh conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D.. In 1881 he was chosen as Baird lecturer, and took for his subject Natural Elements of Revealed Theology, and in 1882 he was the St Giles lecturer, his subject being Confucianism. In 1890 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the University of Aberdeen gave him its honorary LL.D., and in 1899 he was appointed Gifford lecturer by that university, but declined on grounds of health. In the same year he severed his active connection with St. Bernard's as their minister.One of his hymns, O love that will not let me go, written on the day of his sister's marriage, has passed into the popular hymnology of the Christian Church. Matheson published only one volume of verse, Sacred Songs. His exegesis owes its interest to his subjective resources rather than to breadth of learning; his power lay in spiritual vision rather than balanced judgment, and in the vivid apprehension of the factors which make the Christian personality, rather than in constructive doctrinal statement. He died suddenly of apoplexy (stroke) on the 28th of August 1906 in Edinburgh and is buried in the Glasgow Necropolis.

Product Details

• Title: The Representative Women of the Bible
• Author: George Matheson
• Publisher: A. C. Armstrong and Son
• Print Publication Date: 1907
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Preaching
• Resource ID: LLS:WS_6A9BE1142AD84D34ABCC510B24C8BA1B
• Resource Type: Monograph
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