From what I have learned, every Orthodox Church has a "bishop's chair." This could be a hold over from the concept of "seat of Moses."
>Dispensationalism is primarily an American phenomena.
google j n darby and plymouth brethern
see
http://www.plymouthbrethren.com/index.htm
The PBs had a very great influence on the development of American "evangelical" denominations. The Scofield Bible was underwritten by a PB. Dallas Theo was a PB school for years.
see
http://proliberty.com/observer/20090507.htm
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Brethren
[edit]Notable members
John Bodkin Adams[35] — General practitioner and suspected serial killer (tried for one murder but controversially acquitted)
Robert Anderson — Head of Scotland Yard and Christian author.
Thomas John Barnardo[36] — Took in destitute male and female street children; founded Barnardo's.
Patricia Beer[37] — Poet. Born into Brethren, left as adult.
John Gifford Bellet[38] — Prized Classics researcher of Trinity College, Cambridge
Lancelot Brenton — Translator of what is probably the most widely available Greek-English edition of the Septuagint[39]
Stuart Briscoe — author, international speaker and Minister-At-large at Elmbrook Church, was raised Plymouth Brethren, in England
F.F. Bruce — 20th Century Bible scholar and Christian apologist.
Geoffrey Bull — Missionary to Tibet in the early 1950s
Wilson Carlile — British evangelist who founded Church Army and prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral[40]
Robert Chapman — Prominent among the Plymouth Brethren in the 19th Century[41]
Dr. Edward Cronin[42] — Pioneer of homeopathy
Anthony Crosland — Foreign Secretary in Britain's Labour Government, raised in Plymouth Brethren[43]
Aleister Crowley[44] — Occultist and practitioner of Magick raised within the Exclusive Brethren, referred in his memoirs to considering Brethren teachings and practices as essential for understanding his views.
John Nelson Darby[45] — Famous preacher and father of modern Rapture doctrine
James George Deck[46] — Evangelist and missionary to New Zealand
L.C.R. Duncombe-Jewell — raised as a Plymouth Brother.
Jim Elliot — Missionary killed by Waodani Indians along the Curaray River, in Ecuador.[47]
Peter Fleming — Missionary killed by the Waodani Indians along the Curaray River, in Ecuador
Ken Follett — Author of The Pillars of the Earth was raised in a Plymouth Brethren family.
Roger T. Forster — Author, theologian and leader of Ichthus Christian Fellowship
David Willoughby Gooding — Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Greek at Queen's University Belfast and Christian author
Edmund Gosse — Poet, author and critic. Raised as Plymouth Brethren and wrote the book Father and Son about his upbringing.
Emily Bowes Gosse — painter, illustrator and author of religious tracts
Philip Henry Gosse[48] — Naturalist and marine biologist
Anthony Norris Groves[49] — Missionary to Baghdad and India
John George Haigh — Serial killer[50]
David Hendricks[51] — Convicted of killing his wife and children but acquitted in a retrial
William John Hocking — Superintendent of the Royal Mint of the United Kingdom
John Eliot Howard — Chemist and quinologist
Luke Howard — Chemist and meteorologist, the 'namer of clouds'
Harry Ironside[52] — Bible teacher, preacher and author.
Garrison Keillor — Radio personality ("A Prairie Home Companion") and author; raised Plymouth Brethren; No longer associates with them.
William Kelly — Prominent leader of the Exclusive Brethren in the late 19th Century
Maurice Koechlin — Structural Engineer. Chief Engineer in the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
J. Laurence Kulp — 20th Century geologist. Critic of Young Earth creationism[53][54]
John Lennox — Mathemetician (Oxford Professor), author on God and Science and lay Bible teacher and Christian apologist. In fellowship with the brethren. [55]
William MacDonald — Christian author and scholar, author of well known Believer's Bible Commentary[56]
C.H. Mackintosh[57] — 19th Century author of Christian books
Peter Maiden — Current head of Operation Mobilization
Jim McCotter — Was a part of Brethren in early life. Left and was the founder of Great Commission Churches
Ed McCully — Missionary killed by the Waodani Indians along the Curaray River, in Ecuador
Brian D. McLaren — Prominent and controversial voice in the Emerging Church movement. Raised in a Brethren family.[58]
George Müller[59] — Founder of the Bristol Orphanage and a stated teacher in Bethesda Chapel, Bristol
Thomas Newberry[60] — Translator of the Newberry Reference Bible, which uses a system of symbols to explain verb tenses
Francis William Newman[61] — Younger brother of Cardinal John Henry Newman. Excommunicated for denying the Divinity of Christ.
Benjamin Wills Newton — Early leader of the assembly in Plymouth. Branded as a heretic.[62]
Frederick Handley Page — Pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft[63]
Luis Palau[64] — Argentinian-American evangelist, raised in the Plymouth Brethren.
Roger Panes[65] — Part of Exclusive Brethren who, while being "shunned" by his congregation, killed his wife and three children, before committing suicide.
John Parnell, 2nd Baron Congleton — Missionary to Mesopotamia
Joseph M. Scriven — Writer of the words to the hymn, "What A Friend We Have In Jesus."
Arthur Rendle Short[66] — Professor of surgery at Bristol University and author
K.V. Simon - Recognized poet, hymn writer, biblical scholar and a pioneer of the brethren movement in India.
William Gibson Sloan — Scottish missionary to the Faroe Islands.
James Taylor, Jr. — Controversial leader of the Exclusive Brethren branch from 1953-1970
Ngaire Thomas[67] — Wrote the book, Behind Closed Doors, about her childhood abuse in the Exclusive Brethren.
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — English biblical scholar and theologian
Elsie Tu, then Elsie Elliott — A Plymouth Brethren missionary in China before leaving the movement and becoming a prominent political figure in Hong Kong
William Edwy Vine — Author of, Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, and numerous commentaries[68]
Arthur Wallis — Founder of the British New Church Movement, formerly in the Plymouth Brethren
Jim Wallis — Evangelical Christian writer and political activist, founder and editor of Sojourners Magazine, raised in a Brethren family
Charles Gidley Wheeler– Author of The Believer, and A Good Boy Tomorrow: Memoirs of a Fundamentalist Upbringing – Fleet Air Arm pilot, TV dramatist, novelist and philosopher – was raised in the Plymouth Brethren before breaking away at the age of 16.
Smith Wigglesworth[69] — Pentecostal preacher. Testified that he had received his grounding in Bible teaching within the Plymouth Brethren
George Wigram[70] — Wrote a Greek and English Concordance to the New Testament and the Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance to the Old Testament.
Dr. Edward Wilson[71] — Founding member of the Brethren
Orde Wingate[72] — British Major General, advisor to Hagana units during the 1930s
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> You should note that the radical disjunction between Israel and the Church proposed by its adherents is difficult to defend from Scripture and is clearly a departure from historic orthodoxy.
Agree!
