Samuel H. Kellogg
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Dr Samuel Henry Kellogg was an American Presbyterian missionary
in India
who played the major role in revising and retranslating
the Hindi Bible
. His colleagues in the translation were William Hooper and Joseph Arthur Lambert.
Kellogg was also one of the leading advocates of the change in American Evangelical theology from postmillennialism
to premillennialism
between 1870 and 1910.
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...
in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
who played the major role in revising and retranslating
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
the Hindi Bible
Bible translations by language
Bible translations have been made into 2,572+ languages, one of the two Testaments in 1,668 languages, and the full Protestant Canon of the Bible in 457 languages as of May 2011....
. His colleagues in the translation were William Hooper and Joseph Arthur Lambert.
Kellogg was also one of the leading advocates of the change in American Evangelical theology from postmillennialism
Postmillennialism
In Christian end-times theology, , postmillennialism is an interpretation of chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation which sees Christ's second coming as occurring after the "Millennium", a Golden Age in which Christian ethics prosper...
to 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...
between 1870 and 1910.