Issachar Jacox Roberts (Chinese: 罗孝全 Luó Xiàoquán; 1802–1871) was a Southern Baptist missionary in Qing China notable for being in direct contact with Hong Xiuquan and for denying him Christian baptism.
He was known for his erratic behaviour and "falling into difficulties with nearly everyone who worked with him", which cost him his connection with the Southern Baptist Convention. Roberts was the only Baptist known to have influenced Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全, Wade-Giles: Hung Hsiu-ch'üan), the Hakka who led the Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864) against the Qing Dynasty which caused millions of deaths. Hong spent two months studying with Roberts at Canton (Guangzhou) in 1847. Roberts refused Hong's request for baptism, perhaps due to a misunderstanding.[citation needed]
He was also the first Baptist missionary, arriving in Hong Kong in February 1842.[1]
With the Taipingedit
In 1860, Roberts left Canton for the Taiping capital at Nanjing. He was dismayed to find that the beliefs of the Taiping departed widely from his own Christianity, but nevertheless accepted a post as advisor to Hong Rengan, foreign minister at the Taiping court. While there, Roberts arranged for some Baptists from the United States to visit Nanjing and meet Hong directly. He left in January 1862, on board the British gunboat Renard, following a dispute with Hong, accusing Hong of the murder of Issachar's servant,[2] and was thereafter fiercely critical of the Taiping.
^To, Alex Kammoon (2018). Lam Chi-fung's Transformative Role in Shaping Hong Kong Baptist Life between 1950 and 1970. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Rapp, John A. (Autumn 2008). "Clashing Dilemmas: Hong Rengan, Issachar Roberts, and a Taiping "Murder" Mystery" (PDF). Journal of Historical Biography (4): 27–58.
^Coughlin, Margaret Morgan. Strangers in the House: J. Lewis Shuck and Issachar Roberts, First American Baptist Missionaries in China, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1972, p. 140.
^. Archived from the original on 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
Bibliographyedit
American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society Archives, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Issachar J. Roberts papers and correspondence
Boardman, Eugene Powers, Christian Influence on the Ideology of the Taiping Rebellion, 1952
Coughlin, Margaret Morgan, "Strangers in the House: J. Lewis Shuck and Issachar Roberts, First American Baptist Missionaries in China, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1972
Pruden, George Blackburn Jr., "Issachar Jacox Roberts and American Diplomacy in China." Ph.D. dissertation, American University, 1977
Rapp, John A., "Clashing Dilemmas: Hong Rengan, Issachar Roberts, and a Taiping "Murder" Mystery," Journal of Historical Biography 4 (Autumn 2008)
Teng, Yuan Chung, "Reverend Issachar Jacox Roberts and the Taiping Rebellion," Journal of Asian Studies, 23, no. 1, (1963) 55–67. Available via JSTOR.
Zetzsche, Jost: «Gützlaffs Bedeutung für die protestantischen Bibelübersetzungen ins Chinesische», i Karl Gützlaff (1803-1851) und das Christentum in Ostasien, s. 155–171, red. av Thoralf Klein, Reinhard Zöllner. Collectana Serica. Nettetal: Monumenta Serica, 2005
For a fictionalized account of Robert's activities in Nanking during the Taiping years see Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom by "Li Bo" (Steven Leibo)
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