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Johann Gerhard
Johann Gerhard

Johann Gerhard (October 17, 1582 – August 10, 1637), was a Lutheran church leader and theologian. Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther

He was born in the German city of Quedlinburg. Quedlinburg (ˈkveːdlɪnbʊʁk is a Town located north of the Harz mountains in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt At the age of fourteen, during a dangerous illness, he came under the personal influence of Johann Arndt, author of Das wahre Christenthum, and resolved to study for the church. Johann Arndt (or Arnd) ( December 27 1555 &ndash May 11 1621) was a German Lutheran theologian who He entered the University of Wittenberg in 1599, to study philosophy. The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg also referred to as MLU, is a public University in the cities of Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language He also attended lectures in theology, then changed to medicine for two years. In 1603, he resumed his theological reading at Jena, and in the following year received a new impulse from J. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU is located in Jena, Thuringia in Germany and was renamed for the German writer Friedrich Schiller W. Winckelmann and Balthasar Mentzer at Marburg. He graduated in 1605 and began to give lectures at Jena, then in 1606 he accepted the invitation of John Casimir, Duke of Coburg, to the superintendency of Heldburg and mastership of the gymnasium; soon afterwards he became general superintendent of the duchy, in which capacity he was engaged in the practical work of ecclesiastical organization until 1616, when he became theological professor at Jena, where the remainder of his life was spent.

Here, with Johann Major and Johann Himmel, he formed the "Trias Johannea. " Though still comparatively young, Gerhard was already regarded as the greatest living theologian of Protestant Germany; in the "disputations" of the period he was always protagonist, and his advice was sought on all public and domestic questions touching on religion or morals. Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. During his lifetime he received repeated calls to almost every university in Germany (e. g. Giessen, Altdorf, Helmstedt, Jena, Wittenberg), as well as to Uppsala in Sweden. The University of Gießen (German Universität Gießen) is officially called Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen after its most famous member The University of Altdorf (Universität Altdorf was a University in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, a small town outside Nuremberg. The University of Helmstedt, official Latin name Academia Julia ("Julius University" was a University in Helmstedt, Brunswick-Lüneburg Uppsala University ( Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a world-class research University in Uppsala, Sweden. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. He died in Jena. Jena (pronunciation ˈjeːna is a university City in central Germany on the river Saale.

His writings are numerous, alike in exegetical, polemical, dogmatic and practical theology. Dogma (the plural is either dogmata or dogmas, Greek, plural) is the established Belief or To the first category belong the Commentarius in harmoniam historiae evangelicae de passione Christi (1617), the Comment, super priorem D. Petri epistotam (1641), and also his commentaries on Genesis (1637) and on Deuteronomy (1658). Of a controversial character are the Confessio Catholica (1633–1637), an extensive work which seeks to prove the evangelical and catholic character of the doctrine of the Augsburg Confession from the writings of approved Roman Catholic authors; and the Loci communes theologici (1610–1622), his principal contribution to science, in which Lutheranism is expounded "nervose, solide et copiose," in fact with a fulness of learning, a force of logic and a minuteness of detail that had never before been approached. Confessio catholica is one of the main works of German Orthodox Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard (1582 – 1637 The term Evangelical Catholic is used by Christian believers who consider themselves both " Catholic " and " evangelical. The Augsburg Confession, also known as the "Augustana" from its Latin name Confessio Augustana is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran

The Meditationes sacrae (1606), a work expressly devoted to the uses of Christian edification, has been frequently reprinted in Latin and has been translated into most of the European languages, including Greek. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. His life, Vita Joh. Gerhardi, was published by ER Fischer in 1723, and by Carl Julius Boettcher, Das Leben Dr Johann Gerhards, in 1858. See also W Gass, Geschichte der protestantischen Dogmatik (1854–1867), and the article in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB is one of the most important and most comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language.

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