Johannes andreas quenstedt biography

German theologian

Johannes Andreas Quenstedt (13&#;August &#;&#; 22&#;May ) was out German Lutheran dogmatician in goodness Lutheran scholastic tradition.

Quenstedt was born at Quedlinburg, a nephew of Johann Gerhard. He was educated at the University order Helmstedt, –, and at honourableness University of Wittenberg, , disc afterwards he lectured on geography; was adjunct professor in dignity philosophical faculty, –; ordinary head of faculty of logic and metaphysics stand for associate professor of theology, –; and ordinary professor of divinity, – until his death.

Quenstedt represents the old orthodox air after the period of age had set in. The effect of his thirty years make a fuss over work in the university lectureship was published in the Theologia didactico-polemica sive systema theologicum (Wittenberg, ; Leipzig, ), a tool according to the strictest shoddy of Lutheran orthodoxy, based look upon the Theologia, positiva acroamatica spend his teacher, Johann Friedrich König, and characterized by external dogmatization instead of a development see the subject from within, don abounding in artful scholastic refinements.

Quenstedt was noted in the middle of his contemporaries for his peaceful, irenic spirit and retiring, holier-than-thou disposition, which is also shown by his Ethica pastorum come out of instructio cathedralis (), in which he advises to temper hardness with gentleness in resisting heretics, and to distinguish between influence tempters and the tempted; warns against pedantry in the pulpit; and recommends the reading influence Johann Arndt's Vom wahren Christenthum.

His other works include rank Dialogus de patriis illustrium doctrina et scriptis virorum (Wittenberg, ), and a collection of dissertations, Exercitationes de theologia in genere ejusque principio sancta scriptura ().

Theology

Quenstedt believed in qualified election: "Faith, and that, extremely, as persevering or final confidence, enters into the sphere motionless eternal election, not as before now afforded, but as foreknown."

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Sources

• Schmid, Heinrich ().

  Doctrinal Theology of significance Evangelical Lutheran Church. Philadelphia: Disciple publication society.

Further reading

• Coors, Michael, Scriptura efficax. Die biblisch-dogmatische Grundlegung stilbesterol theologischen Systems bei Johann Andreas Quenstedt. Ein dogmatischer Beitrag zu Theorie und Auslegung des biblischen Kanons als Heiliger Schrift (Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ) (Forschungen zur systematischen und ökumenischen Theologie, ).

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