William Cunningham (masanin tauhidi)

William Cunningham (2 ga Oktoba 1805 - 14 ga Disamba 1861) masanin tauhidi ne na Scotland kuma wanda ya kafa Ikilisiyar Free Church of Scotland .  Ya kasance Moderator na Free Church a 1859.

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Cunningham a Hamilton, Lanarkshire ɗan fari na Charles Cunningham ɗan kasuwa da matarsa Helen Cunningham . Iyalin sun koma Cheeklaw a cikin iyakar Scotland kuma daga can ya halarci Duns Academy . 

Ya yi karatun Allahntaka a Jami'ar Edinburgh kuma Presbytery na Ikilisiyar Scotland a Duns ya ba shi lasisi a 1828 kuma an sanya shi a matsayin mataimakin minista ga Middle Parish a Greenock . 

 Ayyuka 
An naɗa shi a matsayin ministan wannan cocin a watan Oktoba 1831, inda ya kasance na tsawon shekaru uku. A watan Janairun 1834 an fassara shi zuwa cajin farko na Kwalejin Trinity Kirk a Edinburgh. Wannan matakin (zuwa daya daga cikin manyan majami'u na Scotland) ba daidai ba ne saboda an riga an rufe makomar cocin ta hanyar Dokar Majalisar yayin da za a rushe cocin don buɗe hanyar Waverley Station.

Cunningham ya zama babban mai ba da shawara ga sabuwar Ikilisiyar 'Yanci kuma ya rubuta da yawa a kan batun. Jami'ar Princeton ta ba shi digirin digirin girmamawa (Doctor of Divinity) a cikin 1842 dangane da rubuce-rubucensa.

Har ila yau, canjinsa ya yi daidai da farkon lokacin da aka sani a tarihin Ikklisiya na Scotland a matsayin Rikicin Shekaru Goma, kuma ya bar Ikilisiyar Scotland a cikin Rashin hankali na 1843 don zama ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa Ikilisiyar Free Church of Scotland, tare da Thomas Chalmers da Robert Smith Candlish . 

Zuwa ƙarshen 1843 ya ziyarci Amurka don yin shari'a ga Ikilisiyar Free kuma ya tara kuɗi a can, bayan ya riga ya sami digiri na D.D. daga Jami'ar Princeton. An nada Cunningham Farfesa na tauhidin a Sabon Kwalejin, Edinburgh, kafin ya koma kujera na Tarihin Ikilisiya a 1845, ya maye gurbin Rev David Welsh .  Ya gaji Thomas Chalmers a matsayin Shugaban a 1847, yana aiki a wannan mukamin har zuwa mutuwarsa, kuma an nada shi mai kula da Babban Taron Ikilisiya a 1859. 

Cunningham ya ƙware a fannin tauhidin tarihi, kuma ya rubuta wani aiki mai girma biyu a kan batun. Ana samun labarin sauti mai buɗewa na littafin. Ya kuma rubuta The Reformers da Theology of the Reformation . William Garden Blaikie ya ba da shawarar cewa shi ne "mafi kyawun mai kare Calvinism a zamaninsa" kuma cewa "rashin tausayi na halinsa ya bambanta da ƙarfin hali da ƙwazo a cikin gardama. "  An bayyana Cunningham a matsayin masanin kuma mai jayayya. A cewar Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, "yan uwansa ... tausayi ya haɗu da sha'awarsa ta kasance mai tsananin nuna bambanci wanda ya cancanta ya zama mai ba da labari mai ban sha'awa game da lokutan da suka fi motsawa na tarihin coci, kuma ƙwararren mai rarraba abubuwan da ke cikin rikice-rikice na tauhidi. "

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
A ranar 15 ga Yulin 1834 ya auri Janet Denniston (1810 - 2 ga Maris 1888) 'yar John Denniston na Greenock da Jean Fairrie, kuma suna da matsala -

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