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  Some Sidelights on Ralph Erskine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Ralph was not one of the original Seceders of 1733 although he had been closely associated with his brother's stand on the 'Marrow' controversy, patronage and the Simson case.
Ralph Erskine was the son of Rev. Henry Erskine of Cornhill, Northumberland and later of Chirnside, Berwickshire.
Ralph Erskine's sermons were always written out in full and, for the most part he kept fairly close to his script during delivery.
www.puritansermons.com /erskine/erskin16.htm   (668 words)

  
 Ralph Erskine's Marvellous Ministry
Erskine was united in marriage to Margaret Dewer, a gentleman's daughter, in 1714.
Erskine's sermons are extant in which he portrayed hell so that his hearers felt they were already there, and then he portrayed heaven's open doors in Christ and admonished his hearers to flee from the wrath to come.
Typical of Erskine's exposition is that of Luke 14:23 on the compelling duty of ministers.
www.puritansermons.com /erskine/erskin19.htm   (1486 words)

  
 Society | Ralph Erskine
Erskine, seeing that there was little of the scheme built to relate to his building, designed a structure so striking - with its irregular profile and outward leaning glass - that latecomers to the scene were forced to relate to it.
Inevitably, Erskine's vision was diluted by compromise and disputes between architects and developers, but he retained his overall association with the project, and provided the specific designs for some blocks of flats.
In the 1930s, Erskine wrote that "architecture differs from all other major arts in that it is the art of that which is useful, but like them its symbols and poetry express the culture's priorities and its evaluation of people's needs".
society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5153363-106047,00.html   (1459 words)

  
 MenFromMarrs - pafg13.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Anna Erskine was born in 1614 in Innerteil, Kinghorn, Fifeshire, Scotland.
Elizabeth Erskine was born in 1617 in Innerteil, Kinghorn, Fifeshire, Scotland.
Annabella Erskine was born in 1601 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
mywebpages.comcast.net /Janis_Cross/menfrommarrs/pafg13.htm   (591 words)

  
 Significant Scots - Ralph Erskine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
ERSKINE, RALPH, the well known author of Gospel Sonnets, and other highly esteemed writings, was a young son of Henry Erskine, some time minister of Cornhill, in Northumberland, and, after the revolution, at Chirnside, Berwickshire, and was born at Monilaws, in Northumberland, on the eighteenth day of March, 1685.
Mr Ralph Erskine had been a most diligent student, and had made very considerable progress in the different branches of science, which were commonly studied at that time, but among his people he determined to know nothing save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Mr Ralph Erskine was twice married; first, to Margaret Dewar, daughter to the laird of Lassodie, who died in the month of November, 1730; having lived with him sixteen years, and born him ten children.
www.electricscotland.com /history/other/erskine_ralph.htm   (1923 words)

  
 OBITUARY: Ralph Erskine Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
Erskine was born in Mill Hill, London in 1914.
Erskine proved to be a provocative and stimulating speaker, addressing his colleagues on criteria for a northern architecture based on regional knowledge.
Erskine was invited to enter a limited competition for housing at Killingworth, near Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1969, which began a period of close association with England, with projects in Milton Keynes, Newmarket and most significantly with the Byker redevelopment in Newcastle upon Tyne, a project which has become synonymous with his name.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050321/ai_n13458793   (833 words)

  
 Ralph Erskine (preacher) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ralph Erskine (March 18, 1685 – November 6, 1752), was a Scottish churchman.
Ralph Erskine was the brother of another prominent churchman, Ebenezer Erskine.
There is a life size bronze statue of Ralph Erskine on a pedestal, not far from the High Street in the centre of Dunfermline.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Erskine_(preacher)   (247 words)

  
 Significant Scots - Ebenezer Erskine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The sentence of the synod was confirmed, and, to terminate the process, Mr Erskine appointed to be rebuked and admonished by the moderator, at the bar of the assembly, which was done accordingly.
Mr Erskine and his friends now despairing of any speedy reformations in the judicatories, published their reasons for not acceding to these judications, and proceeded to prepare the judicial act and testimony, which, after many diets of fasting and prayer, was enacted at their twenty-fourth presbyterial meeting, in the month of December, 1736.
Being son-in-law to Mr Ebenezer Erskine, the latter, too, was supported by both the Erskines, who were the idols of the body, and on this occasion gave most humiliating evidence of the power of prejudice to darken the clearest intellects, and to pervert the purest and the warmest hearts.
www.electricscotland.com /history/other/erskine_ebenezer.htm   (4757 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Erskine,
Erskine, Thomas, 1st Baron Erskine ERSKINE, THOMAS, 1ST BARON ERSKINE [Erskine, Thomas, 1st Baron Erskine] 1750-1823, British jurist, b.
Erskine, Ebenezer ERSKINE, EBENEZER [Erskine, Ebenezer], 1680-1754, founder of the Secession Church in Scotland, minister of Portmoak, Kinross-shire (1703) and of Stirling (1731).
The rhetoric of exhaustion and the exhaustion of rhetoric: Erskine Caldwell in the thirties.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Erskine,   (730 words)

  
 Ralph Erskine 1914 - 2005 :: arcspace.com
Distinguished architect and urban planner, Ralph Erskine CBE FRS ARIBA, has died peacefully, aged 91, in his hometown of Drottingholm, near Stockholm, Sweden.
Ralph Erskine was based for most of his career in Sweden where he has designed numerous office buildings and housing developments.
Ralph Erskine designed a small tower for my Kolonihaven project when Copenhagen was Cultural Capital of Europe in 1996.
www.arcspace.com /architects/erskine/erskine.html   (332 words)

  
 Sveriges Arkitekter - Ralph Erskine 1914-2005
Distinguished architect and urban planner, Ralph Erskine CBE FRS ARIBA, has died peacefully, aged 91, in his hometown of Drottningholm, near Stockholm, Sweden.
Ralph Erskine has had an immense influence on the Scandinavian architectural debate.
The Ralph Erskine Award was established by the fund in 1988 and amounts to 10.000 USD.
www.arkitekt.se /s16091   (515 words)

  
 Ralph Erskine - Great Buildings Online
Ralph Erskine, a Swedish-British architect, was born in London in 1914.
Erskine has experimented with designs that depend on user participation and environmental compatibility.
Erskine typically creates an architecture of contrasts in which he uses a variety of forms and materials to juxtapose heavy and light elements.
www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Ralph_Erskine.html   (567 words)

  
 Ralph Erskine (architect) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ralph Erskine Ralph Erskine, CBRE, RFS, ARIBA (February 24, 1914 – March 16, 2005) was a London-born architect and planner who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life.
Erskine was born in 1914 and spent his childhood in Mill Hill in the London Borough of Barnet (North London).
In 1984, with his wife he established the Ruth and Ralph Erskine Nordic Foundation, endowed by proceeds from the Wolf Prize in Arts, which he was awarded that year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Erskine_(architect)   (877 words)

  
 Housing Prototypes: Barberaren
Ralph Erskine's commissions in the Sandviken area, including nearby Hammrby and Jädraés, span a period of about 40 years and include several sites and projects that are essential to understanding Erskine's ideas about housing and urban design.
In many of Erskine's later low-rise, high density residential projects, the Byker Wall, for example, or at Nya Bruket--also in Sandviken--the idea of the elaborate suspended balcony is maintained, but with more modest details as part of the strategy to open individual dwellings to a southern exposure.
Erskine's office referred to this as the "wilted" roofs and preferably they were fl and metal.
housingprototypes.org /project?File_No=SWE005   (1706 words)

  
 Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Charlotte: News: David Walters: Death of a Gentle Genius
Ralph Erskine was different, and in a community five times larger than Brooklyn, he stood the standard process on its head, involving the residents as partners and forging a strong bond between the community and the designers.
Ralph Erskine and his team showed what could be done when urban designers took community values seriously.
At Erskine's insistence, the city demolished old houses only a street or two at a time, and the residents were allowed back into new homes as soon as they were built.
charlotte.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:6482   (891 words)

  
 Synod 2003 begins
Erskine College and Seminary President Dr. John L. Carson opened a bicentennial celebration of the Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Monday with a history of the denomination’s secession from the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, led by brothers Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine, for whom the Due West school is named.
The Erskines and their followers were called “Marrowmen,” Carson said, and he outlined three examples of how the future seceders were “contending for the gospel” in the days leading up to secession.
Carson, the 13th president of Erskine, is a former ARP moderator and pastor who was instrumental in bringing the Synod meetings to the Erskine campus this year.
www.erskine.edu /news/synod.6.09.03.html   (478 words)

  
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Ralph was at that time eleven years old; and some twenty years later recalled with gratitude “the Lord's drawing out his heart toward Him at his father's death.” Ralph Erskine entered Edinburgh University in November 1699 and graduated Master of Arts in 1704.
In the late 1730's a correspondence began between Ralph Erskine and George Whitefield that led to the evangelist coming to Scotland; his first sermon in Scotland was delivered from Erskine's Dunfermline pulpit.
The Erskines and James Fisher produced an Exposition of the Shorter Catechism that John Brown of Edinburgh described as containing “in short compass the fullest and clearest exposition of Christian doctrine and law to be found in any language.” Ralph Erskine was twice married.
www.mountzion.org /text/other/Law_Death_Gospel_Life.doc   (9895 words)

  
 Erskine Ralph - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Born in London, after a Quaker education Erskine studied architecture at the Regent Street...
Caldwell, Erskine Preston (1903-1987), American novelist, born in White Oak, Georgia, and educated at the universities of Virginia and...
Sandiford, (Lloyd) Erskine (1937-), Barbados politician, Prime Minister of Barbados (1987-1994).
au.encarta.msn.com /Erskine_Ralph.html   (85 words)

  
 Poetic Polemic: Warnings Against Legalism in the Gospel Sonnets of Ralph Erskine, by Shane Rosenthal
Erskine was born in Monilaws, Northumberland in 1685.
At the beginning of the Gospel Sonnets Erskine presents the evangelistic enterprise as a "nuptial treaty," and the evangelists are the heralds of the divine King in charge of announcing this heavenly arrangement, gathering suitable brides for the royal Lamb.
Erskine is thinking of the followers of Richard Baxter who argued in his day that God had published a new law, and that conformity to this new law had become one's individual righteousness.
homepage.mac.com /shanerosenthal/reformationink/srpoeticpolemics.htm   (3495 words)

  
 Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England eBook
The Rev. Ralph Erskine was born at Monilaws, Northumberland, on the 15th March, 1685.
He was one of the thirty-three children of Ralph Erskine of Shieldfield, a family of repute descended from the ancient house of Marr.
Erskine was the author of a great number of Sermons; a Paraphrase on the Canticles; Scripture Songs; a Treatise on Mental Images; and Gospel Sonnets.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/649/9.html   (350 words)

  
 ArchitectureWeek - Design - Erskine's Millennium Village - 2001.1128
It is an ambitious mixed-use development being built according to a master plan by architect Ralph Erskine using the latest sustainable methods and materials.
The residential design is reminiscent of Erskine's Byker Wall housing development in the north of England.
Architect Ralph Erskine designed both the master plan and the first phase of housing for the Greenwich Millennium Village in London.
www.architectureweek.com /2001/1128/design_1-1.html   (255 words)

  
 Europa Nostra
In the early 1990s, the area went into receivership and in 1995 the village was bought by the municipality of Nora, encouraged by a promised government grant towards a restoration project.
This was started immediately with the enthusiastic participation of Ralph Erskine who, at over 80, is still active as an architect.
As Gyttorp was the area where Erskine used coloured facades for the first time - as opposed to the white that modernism decreed - the original colours were ascertained and restored.
www.europanostra.org /lang_en/awards_2002/gyttorp.html   (525 words)

  
 ArchitectureWeek - News - Two International Masters - 2005.0413
Half a world away, and six days earlier, British-born Ralph Erskine died at the same age, leaving a comparable legacy of innovative architecture and urban planning.
Erskine's work has been described as an organic architecture inspired by both Swedish empiricism and British community planning.
Erskine experimented with involving user participation and was a 20th-century pioneer in now-fashionable environmental concerns, especially for cold-climate architecture.
www.architectureweek.com /2005/0413/news_1-2.html   (649 words)

  
 Ralph Erskine
Ralph Erskine (1685-1752) was the son of a Covenanter, a Scottish Presbyterian minister who was imprisoned for field-preaching and refusing to countenance the official episcopalian church.
A younger brother of the famous preacher Ebenezer Erskine, Ralph was an evangelical pastor with a love for the truth of God’s Word and the doctrines of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Erskine brothers were “Marrow Men”, supporting Thomas Boston’s reprinting of the “Marrow of Modern Divinity”, a Puritan book which distinguishes the Covenant of Works from the Covenant of Grace.
www.covenantofgrace.com /r_erskine.htm   (108 words)

  
 Ralph Erskine
Erskine sucks dry available materials and concludes that "allegations of a double-cross or broken deal by 'perfidious Albion' [during the Sinkov mission in February and March 1941] are without the slightest foundation."
This article includes both Erskine's commentary and reproductions of "the first text derived from naval Enigma signals" at Bletchley Park.
Erskine believes that Hinsley's official history overstates the value of the "find" on U 110.
intellit.muskingum.edu /alpha_folder/E_folder/erskine.html   (1040 words)

  
 The Mineralogical Record - Label Archive
Ralph Beaumont Erskine Jr., born August 31, 1912, the son of Ralph Sr.
The business must have been short-lived, though, as he had no ads after July 1942, and he does not appear in the 1945 directory or thereafter, nor does his wife.
(Perhaps he was drafted.) Ralph B. Erskine jr.
www.minrec.org /labels.asp?colid=116   (234 words)

  
 Sveriges Arkitekter - The Ralph Erskine Award
Over the years, architect Ralph Erskine has received several of the world's most principal distinctions and prizes for his architecture.
He has amalgamated the proceeds into a fund, the Ruth and Ralph Erskine Stipend Fund, administered by the Swedish Association of Architects.
The next Ralph Erskine Award is given in the year 2006.
www.arkitekt.se /erskine   (220 words)

  
 Ralph Erskine (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Ralph Erskine (1685 - 1752), was a Scotch divine who was educated at the University of Edinburgh.
These men were contemporary with Whitefield, Edwards, and others of the Great Awakening, and thus bore much fruit for the kingdom of Jesus Christ in their lifetimes.
The works of both Erskine's can be found in various places on the web, but printed copies of their works remain scarce.
www.lamblion.net.cob-web.org:8888 /Quotations/ralph_erskine.htm   (563 words)

  
 Fgb Fall 04 Article #6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
A pamphlet war broke out between James Robe (1688-1753), a man used of God in the Scottish revivals, and Ralph Erskine (1685-1752), one of the most wellknown preachers of his day.
WHEN false worship had prevailed in the church of old unto its ruin, God showed and represented it unto his Prophets under the name and appearance of a chamber of imagery (Eze 8:12).
Ralph Erskine (1685-1752): one of the most popular preachers in the Church of Scotland in his day.
www.mountzion.org /fgb/Fall04/FgbF6-04.html   (3026 words)

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