John Philip

John Philip (born April 14, 1775 in Kirkcaldy , Scotland , † August 27, 1851 in Hankey , Cape Province ) was a British missionary , civil rights activist and director of the London Missionary Society (LMS).

Life

John Philip was the son of a Scottish teacher. After training as a drapery, he worked as an accountant in Dundee and then attended Wesleyan Theological College in Hoxton . In 1804 he was called to pastor a congregational congregation in Aberdeen . In 1822 he was sent to a mission station in South Africa as director of the LMS together with his Scottish colleague John Campbell. As superintendent, he was to reorganize and monitor the work of the LMS there. There Philip was committed to the landless workers, the Khoi , who served the white farmers and traders as cheap labor. After the abolition of slavery in the British Empire , he started a campaign in South Africa “for equal civil rights for all His Majesty's subjects” in order to further improve the minimum civil rights for the freed slaves. Philip was committed to the preservation of the small states of the Xhosa , Griqua and Sotho bordering the Cape Colony and their indigenous interests. Philip drew the hatred of many compatriots when he blamed both the British authorities and the white settlers for a border war before a parliamentary committee in London . Philip's life was shaped by the belief that the gospel should change people and societies. After his death in 1851 he was buried in a township cemetery. Philip is considered to be the founding father of liberalism in South Africa.

Works

Researches in South Africa: Illustrating the Civil, Moral, and Religious Condition of the Native Tribes. Adamant Media Corporation, 2004, ISBN 0-7905-8270-8 .
- Original London 1828: Volume I - Internet Archive
- Original London 1828: Volume II - Internet Archive

literature

Andrew Ross: John Philip 1775-1851. Missions, Race and Politics in South Africa. Mercat Press, 1986, ISBN 0-08-032467-3 .

Individual evidence

↑ Information at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on February 16, 2015.
^ ^A ^b ^c Andrew C. Ross: Philip, John . In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 4th edition. tape 8 , no. 6 . UTB, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-8401-5 , p. 1269 , col. 1 .

personal data
SURNAME	Philip, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Scottish missionary, civil rights activist and director of the London Missionary Society
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kirkcaldy
DATE OF DEATH	August 27, 1851
Place of death	Hankey (South Africa) , Cape Province

[1] Information at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on February 16, 2015.

[RGG4-2] A ^b ^c Andrew C. Ross: Philip, John . In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 4th edition. tape 8 , no. 6 . UTB, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-8401-5 , p. 1269 , col. 1 .