Andrew Alexander Bonar (Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 May 29, 1810 – December 30, 1892 in Glasgow

Glasgow

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) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland

Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900)

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 and youngest brother of Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar was a Scottish churchman and poet.-Life:The son of James Bonar, Solicitor of Excise for Scotland, he was born and educated in Edinburgh. He comes from a long line of ministers who have served a total of 364 years in the Church of Scotland...

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He studied at Edinburgh; was minister at Collace, Perthshire, 1838 – 1856 (both in the Church of Scotland and the Free Church); and of Finnieston Free Church, Glasgow, 1856 till his death. He joined the Free Church in 1843, and was its moderator

Moderator of the General Assembly

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 in 1878. He was identified with evangelical and revival movements and adhered to the doctrine of premillennialism

Premillennialism

Premillennialism in Christian end-times theology is the belief that Jesus will literally and physically be on the earth for his millennial reign, at his second coming. The doctrine is called premillennialism because it holds that Jesus’ physical return to earth will occur prior to the inauguration...

. With Robert Murray McCheyne he visited Palestine in 1839 to inquire into the condition of the Jews there. During the visit of Dwight L. Moody

Dwight L. Moody

Dwight Lyman Moody , also known as D.L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts , the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers.-Early life:Dwight Moody was born in Northfield, Massachusetts to a large...

 to Britain

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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 in 1874 and 1875, Moody was warmly welcomed by Bonar, despite the latter receiving considerable criticism from other Calvinist ministers in the Free Church.

Works

• A Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland in 1839 (Edinburgh, 1842) ISBN 1-85792-258-1
• Memoir and Remains of Robert Murray McCheyne (1845) ISBN 0-85151-084-1
• "The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne"
• Commentary on Leviticus (1846) ISBN 0-85151-086-8
• Redemption Drawing Nigh, a defence of the premillennial advent (1847)
• The Development of the Antichrist (1853) online at http://www.pbministries.org/Eschatology/a_bonar/doa.htm
• The Life and Labours of Asahel Nettleton
  Asahel Nettleton
  Asahel Nettleton was an American theologian and pastor from Connecticut who was highly influential during the Second Great Awakening. The number of people converted to Christianity as a result of his ministry is estimated at 30,000. He attended Yale College from 1805 until his graduation in 1809...
  
  , with Bennet Tyler (1854) ISBN 0-85151-701-3
• Christ and his Church in the Book of Psalms (1859) ISBN 1-899003-65-7

Bonar also edited Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford was a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.-Life:...

's Letters (1863); and wrote many tracts, pamphlets, and minor biographies.

His daughter Marjory edited his Diary and Letters, his Reminiscences, Heavenly Springs (ISBN 0-85151-479-0) (Portions selected from his diary, letters, and sermons), and Wayside Wells (Thoughts for Sabbath evenings, selected from his writings and sermons).

A currently in-print publication containing the Diary and Letters and the Reminiscences is:
while the Reminiscences are available separately as:

External links

• A. Bonar: Biography, Literature, Sermons, Articles and more