Voices and influences
Philipp Jakob Spener
The Lutheran pastor who put small Bible-study groups in people's homes and started a movement.
Summary
This site quotes Philipp Jakob Spener 3 times across 3 books, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1635 to 1705, German (Alsatian-born).
- Quoted here most in Romans: 1 of 3.
Philipp Jakob Spener
- Lived
- 1635 to 1705
- Nation
- German (Alsatian-born)
- Tradition
- Lutheran
3 of 3 quotations
Own words
Quoted in full, because Philipp Jakob Spener died in 1705 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
“Sehen wir die heilige Schrifft an / so haben wir nicht zu zweifflen / daß GOtt noch einigen bessern zustand seiner Kirchen hier auff Erden versprochen hat.”
Pia Desideria (1675), the second part, in the printing of Frankfurt, 1706, page 72
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Romans 11:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob. BSB
“Daß man dahin bedacht wäre / das wort GOttes reichlicher unter uns zu bringen. Wir wissen / daß wir von natur nichts gutes an uns haben / sondern soll etwas an uns seyn / so muß es von GOtt in uns gewürcket werden / und…”
Pia Desideria (1675), the first proposal, in the printing of Frankfurt, 1706, page 94
Undated in the archive this site cites.
The rest of the quotation
darzu ist das wort das kräfftige mittel
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. BSB
“Das vornehmste aber achte ich dieses zu seyn / weil ja unser gantzes Christenthum bestehet in dem innern oder neuen menschen / dessen Seele der glaube ...”
Pia Desideria (1675), the sixth proposal, in the printing of Frankfurt, 1706, page 151
Undated in the archive this site cites.
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Philipp Jakob Spener 3 times across 3 books.
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The life, in order
The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
Philipp Jakob Spener was the senior Lutheran minister in Frankfurt when he concluded that his church had sound doctrine and cold members. In 1670 he began inviting people to his house twice a week to read the Bible together and talk about it — the collegia pietatis, or gatherings for piety, which put an open Bible in the hands of laypeople instead of leaving it in the pulpit. Five years later he set out the program in Pia Desideria: more Scripture among ordinary Christians, real practice of the priesthood of all believers, Christianity as life rather than argument, gentleness in controversy, and preachers trained to build faith rather than display learning. It made him famous and it made him enemies; theologians accused him of undermining the church, and he moved on to Dresden and then Berlin under pressure. The movement he started fed the Halle institutions, the Moravians, and through them the Protestant missionary era. He was godfather to Zinzendorf.
3 quotations across 3 books