唐培理牧师：美知台白色恐怖但保持缄默

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VOA Chinese, Nov 23, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... erry-134413308.html

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Milo Thornberry 说：“当我开始听到一些关于失踪、酷刑、枪决、秘密法庭，以及恐怖气氛的事情时，我天真的反应是以为，只要美国国务院和美国人民知道这些，他们一定不会支持蒋介石。不过，对于美国国务院，我的看法错了，他们知道的比大多数人还要多，但是他们认为基于美国的国家利益，必须要支持蒋介石。

"唐培理夫妇后来因协助被判刑8年的彭明敏逃离台湾，在1971年3月被国民党政府逮捕并驱逐出境。唐培理说，他在返美后也被美国政府列入黑名单，长达19年拿不到护照，无法出境探望在英国就学的台湾籍养子理查德。

Note:
(a)
(i) 长老教会  Presbyterian Church/Presbyterianism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterianism

Quote:

"Presbyterianism originated primarily in Scotland. * * * In fact, most Presbyterians found in England can trace a Scottish connection, and the Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants

"Presbyterian denominations derive their name from the Greek word presbýteros, 'elder.'

"Presbyterianism was especially influenced by the French/Swiss theologian, John Calvin, who is credited with the development of Reformed theology and the work of John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland and brought his teachings back to Scotland. The Presbyterian church traces its ancestry back primarily to England and Scotland. In August of 1560 the Scottish Parliament adopted the Protestant Confession of Faith as the creed of the Scottish Kingdom.

(A) John Calvin (born in Noyon, Picardy, Kingdom of France [present-day France]; died 1564 in Geneva)

The French surname Calvin is derived from Latin calvus bald.

(B) John Knox (1514-1574; Scottish)

(ii) 台灣基督長老教會
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5 ... 1%E6%95%99%E6%9C%83

Why did Scottish physician James Laidlaw Maxwell identify himself as 馬雅各醫生?

In ancient time, everything was in Latin, which spelled Jacobus. King James' Authorized Version of the Bible (1611) used  James in the New Testament as the name of two of Christ’s apostles (James the brother of John and James the brother of Andrew), but called in the Old Testament the brother of Esau as Jacob--though the three had been Jacobus.

(b) 卫理公会  Methodist Church
(i) John Wesley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley
(1703 Lincolnshire - 1791 London; largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement)

Quote: "The year of his return to Oxford (1729) marks the beginning of the rise of Methodism. The Holy Club was formed by John's younger brother, Charles Wesley, and some fellow students, including George Whitefield. The holy club met weekly and they systematically set about living a holy life. They were branded as 'Methodist' by students at Oxford who derided the methodical way they ordered their lives.

(ii) Methodism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism
(The Methodist revival originated in Epworth, North Lincolnshire, England. It began with a group of men, including John Wesley and his younger brother Charles, as a movement within the Church of England in the 18th century. The movement focused on Bible study and a methodical approach to scriptures and Christian living. The name "methodist" was a pejorative name given to a small society of students at Oxford who met together between 1729 and 1735 for the purpose of mutual improvement, given because of their methodistic habits.)

(c) Gerrit van der Wees, Book review: Fireproof Moth: A Missionary in Taiwan’s White Terror, by Milo L. Thornberry. Taipei Times, June 12, 2011
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/ ... 11/06/12/2003505565
(book review on Milo Thornberry,  Fireproof Moth; A Missionary in Taiwan's White Terror. Sunberry Press, 2011)
  
The first name Milo is Latinized form of Miles.


(2) 被指密会赌盘大亨 马英九反击，状告民进党. VOA Chinese, Nov 23, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... -DPP-134390488.html

(3) 台北美国商会邀请双英谈未来经贸发展. VOA Chinese, Nov 22, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... TING-134310068.html