Georg Stosch

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German administrative officer, see Georg von Stosch .

Johann Ernst Georg Stosch (born September 2, 1851 in Bautzen , † 1920 ) was a German Lutheran theologian, pastor and missionary.

Life

Johann Ernst Georg was a son of the married couple Andreas and Maria Louise Stosch born. Heincke. From 1871 to 1874 he studied theology in Leipzig and Erlangen . He was then vicar to Max Frommel in the Siloah community of Ispringen, which belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baden . From 1877 to 1880 he was pastor in Rosenthal ( Saxon Switzerland ). During this time he married Helene Richter on October 18, 1877, who was a daughter of the pastor and master's degree Richard Richter and his wife Dorothea Rosalie, née. Bird was. In 1880 he moved to Marienberg near Helmstedt , where he worked as pastor at the church of the Lutheran Cistercian convent for eight years . In 1888 he joined the Leipzig Mission and was sent to what is now Tamil Nadu , where he was responsible for the Cuddalore mission station from February 1889 and for Panrutti from 1890. In 1891 he was transferred to Madras . In 1892 he had to leave the missionary service for health reasons, returned home and became pastor at the Queen Elisabeth Evangelical Hospital in Berlin , where from 1902 he also lectured in missiology at the university . In 1906 he took over a pastor's position in Neuwedell (Pomerania) .

Theologically, Stosch was committed to the north German neo-Lutheranism and thus above all to theologians such as Claus Harms , Louis Harms , Ludwig Adolf Petri and Theodor Kliefoth . He paid particular attention to the sacrament of the altar , which he describes as follows:

“... the word of forgiveness only penetrates as far as our consciousness reaches. It does not penetrate into the hidden depths of our soul, into the sinful reasons of our nature ... Should it not be a consolation for us that the unrecognized sins are blotted out and atoned for through Christ's body and blood so that they do not have to be placed in the light before God's face? That the sins slumbering in our nature be forgiven before they awaken and destroy us? "

As a member of the Bible Association , he advocated the verbal inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible in several publications .

family

The couple had three sons. Pastor Richard Andreas Johannes Stosch (born November 16, 1878), senior teacher Otto Georg Heinrich Stosch (born August 21, 1881) and pastor Karl Martin Stosch (born November 26, 1886) with Lucie Luise Mathilde born on February 5, 1913. Married Frieze.

Fonts (selection)

• The Holy Sacraments of Christ's Church , 1888.
• Letters about the Revelation of St. Johannis , Gütersloh 1892.
• St. Paul the Apostle. An apologetic study , Leipzig 1894.
• The eyewitnesses of the life of Jesus. A contribution to the gospel question , Gütersloh 1895.
• In distant India - impressions and experiences in the service of the Lutheran mission among the Tamulen , Berlin 1896.
• The soul and its story. Meditations for Inner Life , Berlin 1897.
• Son of God and Mary. Spiritual images based on the Gospel of St. Johannis , Gütersloh 1899.
• Paganism as a religious problem in mission science outlines , Gütersloh 1903.
• For holy goods. Aphorisms for the Historical Justification of the Old Testament , 1905.
• The prophecy of Israel in religious-historical appreciation , 3 parts (in one volume), Gütersloh 1907.
• The essence of inspiration based on the Old Testament literature examined , Gütersloh 1912.
• The inspiration of the New Testament Gospels , Gütersloh 1913.
• Aphorisms from the world of thought for consideration in serious times , Gütersloh 1915.

Web links

• Georg Stosch in the Leipzig Missionaries Directory
• 100 years of the Bible Covenant. Section 1.3 1911 to 1918: The “Steinmeier era” on the website of the Bibelbund

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Wittenberg : The holy meal in the life of the church. Demonstrated by the German neo-Lutheranism . In: Ernst Seybold (Ed.): Der Kelch des Heils. [Conference report of the Working Group on Church Renewal] Schwanberg Castle 20.3.-23.3.1962 . Bad Windsheim 1983, p. 78 f .
2. ↑ Georg Stosch: The holy sacraments of the Church of Christ . 1888, p. 241 f .