Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst (born December 18, 1765 in Jesberg , † January 24, 1855 in Kassel ) was a German Reformed theologian .

Life

In 1795 Ernst became court preacher in Kassel. In 1813 he was appointed Metropolitan and Consistorial Councilor. In 1837 he became superintendent and in 1845 general superintendent of the Reformed Church in Niederhessen .

As an opponent of the revival movement and his colleague LF Lange, Ernst drew criticism as an uncritical, traditional, inveterate rationalist and cynic . Subsequently, his differences from supranaturalism were fiercely discussed theologically. Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling exerted a strong influence on him. As a homileticist, Ernst faced current theological questions of the day, rejected the pious view of the struggle against Napoléon Bonaparte and condemned double truth and a priori dogmatics . He also described slavery , national hatred and contempt as the greatest evils in the world.

He was a popular preacher and published many of his sermons . In 1845 his convictions of an old Christian appeared anonymously. Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst was the father-in-law of Ludwig Emil Grimm .

Works (incomplete)

  • Printed sermons
  • Beliefs of a Christian old man
  • Two sermons after the death of the Electress of Hessen zu Cassel on Jan. 14, 1820
  • Commemorative sermon on the death of the Elector of Hesse, Wilhelm I, on February 27th of this year, delivered on April 8th in Cassel
  • Speech at the march out of the Kurhessian troops located in Cassel: January 30th, 1814, held on Friedrichsplatz
  • Sermons on self-chosen passages from the Holy Scriptures: For Reading, 1827
  • Sermons with mixed contents, Volume 1 1806, Volume 2 1815
  • Sermon on the inseparable connection between reason and Christianity: delivered in the Brothers Church in Kassel on August 24, 1834
  • Sermon for the third secular celebration of the handover of the Augsburg Confession of Doctrine and Faith, 1830
  • Confirmation act by Countess Louise von Reichenbach-Lessonitz: together with the sermon related to it, on the highest orders given to print by CFW Ernst
  • Drafts for sermons, along with a provision on how to draft and hold them for candidates for the ministry office, 1826
  • Sermon on the mistakes of youth: delivered on July 24, 1825 in the Brethren Church

Remarks

  1. In the Landgraviate of Hesse , individual pastors (mostly at city churches) were designated as metropolitans as early as the 16th century . They were subordinate to the superintendent and each had a smaller area in charge of the pastors. Both in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and in the Evangelical Church in Hesse-Kassel , this office existed until the 19th century.

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , 2nd Edition, Volume 3. KG Saur Verlag, Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-598-25033-9 , p. 137
  • Religion in the past and present Concise dictionary for theologians and religious studies . Directmedia, Berlin, 2004, digital library, volume 12, p. 8439