Sanctification movement
A sanctification movement is understood in the broader sense as a Christian revival movement of the modern age . She attaches great importance to the fact that her followers have experienced a “real” conversion and that they live according to the ethical commandments of Christianity and live as sinlessly as possible . Specifically, depending on the circumstances of the time, this found expression in the emphasis on evangelism , diakonia , charity , abstinence and practical sanctification .
Roots of the sanctification movement
One of the earliest sanctification movements was Methodism . Awakened or radical pietism ( Gottfried Arnold ) can also be assigned to this direction. Other churches that are included in the sanctification movement are the Salvation Army , the Churches of Christ , the Church of the Nazarene , the Church for Christ and, in Switzerland, the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Bern. The book The higher Christian Life by William Edwin Boardman (1810–1886) as well as the couple Michael Baxter (1834–1910) and Elizabeth Baxter, b. Foster (1837–1926), who later took over the Beth-Shan pastoral care and sick home in London. Baxter also published The Christian Herald magazine. Franz Eugen Schlachter stayed with the Baxter couple on his trip to England in 1884.
Formative personalities of the sanctification movement
In a narrower sense, the expression is used within the biography of Franz Eugen Schlachter for the third wave of the sanctification movement around 1874/75 in England, Germany and Switzerland. This refers to the work of Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1898) and his wife Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911). The sanctification movement appeared in all awakened circles of pietism , the Protestant churches and the free churches . In addition to Robert Pearsall Smith, the decisive people were Arnold Bovet , Andrew Murray , Carl Heinrich Rappard and Dora Rappard , Otto Stockmayer , Ernst Gebhardt , but also Dwight Lyman Moody , Ira David Sankey , Anna von Wattenwyl , Dorothea Trudel and later Franz Eugen Schlachter . The song of the sanctification movement " Jesus saves me now " is also known. Although he belongs to the circle of the " Open Brothers ", the orphanage father Georg Müller should also be mentioned here, as well as the founder of the China Inland Mission , Hudson Taylor , and in China, to a limited extent, Watchman Nee .
Revival of the sanctification movement
The sanctification movement is dated from 1874 to 1909. The ideas continue to have an effect through new editions of edification books from the sanctification movement.
literature
- Stephan Holthaus : healing - healing - sanctification. The history of the German sanctification and evangelization movement (1874-1909). Brunnen, Giessen 2005, ISBN 3-7655-9485-7 .
- Paul Fleisch: The Sanctification Movement. Brunnen, Gießen 2003, ISBN 3-7655-9479-2 (reprint).
- Karl Heinz Voigt: The sanctification movement between the Methodist Church and the regional church community. Brockhaus, Haan 1996, ISBN 3-417-29418-5 .
- Dieter Lange: A movement is breaking through. Brunnen, Giessen 1990, ISBN 3-7655-9359-1 .
- Rudolf Dellsperger u. a .: On your word. Contributions to the history and theology of the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Bern in the 19th century. Berchtold Haller Verlag, Bern 1981, ISBN 3-85570-081-8 .
- Alfred Roth sources from the sanctuary 1924, new edition of the Free Brethren Congregation Albstadt 2007.
- On your word from Rudolfs Dellsperger, Markus Nägeli, Hansueli Ramser, Berchtold Haller Verlag, 1981.
- Karl-Hermann Kauffmann: Franz Eugen Schlachter and the sanctification movement , biography with reference to the spiritual environment of Schlachter and with a short history of the Schlachter Bible, detailed version with 100 illustrations. Commemorative publication for the anniversary "100 Years of the Schlachter Bible". Self-published by Freie Brüdergemeinde Albstadt 2005, Brosamen-Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046811-7
- " Franz Eugen Schlachter " A visit to London , brochure, a summary of three articles from "The crumbs of Mr. Tisch ", Free Brethren Community Albstadt, 2006.
- Karl-Hermann Kauffmann: Franz Eugen Schlachter, a Bible translator in the context of the sanctification movement , Verlag Johannis, Lahr, 2007, ISBN 978-3-501-01568-1 .