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David W. Bercot (born April 13, 1950) is an attorney,〔Martindale-Hubbell (), accessed November 26, 2010.〕author, and international speaker.〔Eglise de Mainson (), accessed November 27, 2010.〕 He has written various books and magazine articles about early Christianity and Christian discipleship.〔Wilson, Dean (), accessed November 26, 2010.〕 His two best-known works are ''Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up?'', and the ''Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs.'' Bercot is a conservative American Christian and lives in Pennsylvania, United States.〔 Martindale-Hubbell (), accessed November 26, 2010.〕 == Biography == David Bercot was raised as a Jehovah's Witness.〔Staten, Steve (), accessed November 25, 2010.〕 After leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1976, he began his university education. He graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University summa cum laude,〔Origen, The Pilgrim Road, Scroll Publishing Co., 1991, p. ix.〕 and he obtained his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree cum laude from Baylor University School of Law.〔Hendrickson Publishers (), accessed November 25, 2010.〕 In 1985, Bercot began an in-depth study of the early Christians who lived before the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325. His studies started him on a spiritual pilgrimage.〔davidbercot.com (), accessed November 28, 2010.〕 In 1989, he wrote the book, ''Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up'', which sets forth some of the teachings and lifestyle of the early Christians.〔Amazon.com (), accessed November 26, 2010.〕 That same year, he joined with an Assembly of God pastor to establish Scroll Publishing Company for the purpose of publishing various writings of the pre-Nicene Christians, as well as to publish other Christian books.〔Scroll Publishing Co. (), accessed November 24, 2010.〕 Bercot’s studies of the early Christians brought him into contact and dialogue with three different branches of Christianity: the Anabaptists (Mennonites, Amish, Brethren),〔The Mennonite Encyclopedia, “Anabaptist,” Mennonite Brethren Publishing House, vol. A-C, pp. 111-116.〕 the Anglican Church, and the churches of the Restoration Movement (Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, International Church of Christ).〔Restoration Movement (), accessed November 16, 2010.〕 In 1985, after completing his religious studies through Cambridge University, Bercot was ordained as an Anglican priest.〔Hendrickson Publishers (), accessed November 25, 2010.〕 However, he eventually left the Anglican Church and began fellowshipping with various Anabaptist churches.〔Staten, Steve (), accessed November 25, 2010.〕 Today Bercot is a lecturer and author who emphasizes the simplicity of Biblical doctrine and early (ante-Nicene) Christian teaching over against what he would call the heavy and complex body of theological understandings that have built up over the centuries in churches and in academia and that have come to be thought of as orthodoxy. He is particularly notable for his deeply nonresistant understanding of Jesus's and New Testament teaching. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Bercot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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