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Dr. Timothy Lin () (18 January 1911 - 11 October 2009) was a Chinese-born Old Testament scholar, master of Biblical languages, seminary professor, pastor, and president of China Evangelical Seminary in Taipei, Taiwan. ==Biography== Lin was born into the family of an Episcopal minister in Chekiang, China, on January 18, 1911. He was the eldest of nine children. Lin was taught to read the Bible when he was six years old. His father would often put him on the top of a table to preach before he was six. Although he had been in church all of his life, Lin did not experience conversion until he was nineteen years old. His conversion was the central experience of Lin's life. Lin did not consider entering the ministry until an old pastor suggested it - Lin took this as a call from God and entered a seminary in Nanking to prepare for the ministry. He discovered that the seminary taught liberalism, using the historical critical method to interpret the Bible. When he protested against these methods of interpreting the Bible, he was told by the president of the seminary, "Be quiet, Timothy, and we will send you to Oxford." He left that seminary in 1934 because he believed in Biblical inerrancy and would not compromise. He became the pastor of Jubilee Church in Shanghai until 1937. From 1937 to 1938 he was the principal of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Bible Institute of Kwangsi. During World War II, Lin was in charge of Bethel Orphanage and was the principal of Bethel High School. On January 31, 1939 his first wife Daisy Chin and their infant daughter Beibei were killed by gunfire from the Japanese Imperial forces, and he broke his neck while guiding students from the orphanage to safety during the attack. Soon afterward he became the dean of Shanghai Bible College. After the war he was invited to be the president of the East China Theological College at Hangchow, which was affiliated with the China Inland Mission. In 1940 he came to the United States for the first time to study Hebrew and Greek at Concordia Theological Seminary and Washington University in St. Louis. On September 9, 1941, Lin married Gracie Wu Ng. They had one son in 1945, Samuel Lin, who later retired as an Assistant Surgeon General with the US Public Health Service. Gracie Lin died on September 13, 1967. In February, 1969, Lin married Lily Wong, who died on August 16, 2005. In 1948 he returned to the United States for advanced study, receiving Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology degrees from Faith Theological Seminary, then located in Wilmington, Delaware. He then earned a Ph.D. in Hebrew and Cognate Language from Dropsie University. He was also awarded many other earned as well as honorary degrees. He died in Monterey Park, California, on 11 October 2009. 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「Timothy Lin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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