Christianus Karsten

Christianus Karsten (born March 20, 1810 in Enkhuizen , † July 24, 1884 in Amersfoort ) was a Dutch Old Catholic theologian and president of the Old Catholic seminary in Amersfoort.

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Christianus Karsten was a nephew of the Utrecht professor of philology Simon Karsten . He studied theology in Amersfoort and received in 1830 the sacrament of Holy Orders . After pastoral work in The Hague and Amersfoort, he became a lecturer in systematic theology at the seminary there in 1835 and, from 1854, its rector.

For almost half a century he taught theology at the Old Catholic seminary in Amersfoort. He was considered a proven connoisseur of Jansenism , Gallicanism and the history of Port-Royal and was in correspondence with like-minded people in France. Through his mediation, the seminary came to a considerable archive, mainly with letters and documents on the history of the dispute between the Jesuits and the Jansenists in France and Belgium in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Through him, the seminary also has oil paintings of people from Port-Royal.

Works

Published by: Gabriel Du Pac de Bellegarde : Histoire de l'église d'Utrecht. 3rd edition, Utrecht 1852.
Under the pseudonym Een kathiek : Het Verderflijke der gehoorzamheid bij de Jezuiten en den door hen toegestanen koningsmoord. Rotterdam 1845.
Betoog dat de huwelijksverbintenis afgescheiden moet blijven van het sacrament des huwelijks. Rotterdam 1880.

literature

Franciscus Kenninck : Karsten (Christianus) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 2. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 649 (Dutch, knaw.nl - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1912, reprint unchanged).

Individual evidence

^ Peter-Ben Smit: Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History. The Catholic Church in Every Place . Brill, Leiden 2011, ISBN 9789004206472 , p. 77.

personal data
SURNAME	Karsten, Christianus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch Old Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Enkhuizen
DATE OF DEATH	July 24, 1884
Place of death	Amersfoort

[1] Peter-Ben Smit: Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History. The Catholic Church in Every Place . Brill, Leiden 2011, ISBN 9789004206472 , p. 77.