Jacques Abbadie

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Jacques Abbadie

Jacques Abbadie , also James , Jacobus or Jacob Abbadie (born May 3, 1654 in Nay (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) , Béarn ; † September 25, 1727 in Mary-le-Bone near London ) was a French Reformed theologian and apologetic writer .

Life

After studying at the reformed academies of Saumur and Sedan in France , which still existed at that time , Abbadie received his doctorate in theology at the age of 17. He began his work La Vérité de la religion chrétienne (the truth of the Christian religion) in Paris , and Count d'Espence, the ambassador of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm, persuaded him to go to Berlin to take over the spiritual direction of the emerging French Take over colony. In 1680 - before the Edict of Nantes was withdrawn - he moved to Berlin , where he worked as a theologian of the Reformed community . He gained access to the Great Elector and was instrumental in the decree of the Edict of Potsdam of 1685. In the same year, the elector sent him to Holland to recruit craftsmen who were to set up manufactories in Brandenburg. In Berlin he finished his work La Vérité de la religion chrétienne , the last volume of which was printed in 1689. The work has also been translated into German and English. Although it contained anti-Catholic polemics and was written by a "heretic", it was also read by many Catholics, including at the court of Louis XIV. After the Great Elector died, he followed Marshal Friedrich von Schomberg to England in 1688 . Here he wrote his treatise L'art de se connaître soi-même ou recherche sur les sources de la morale , in which he established self-love as the highest moral principle that was misunderstood by his opponents as egoism. At the end of 1690 Abbadie was employed as a preacher at the French Savoy Church in London. King William then awarded him a benefit in Ireland . Even in his old age he was active as a writer, so he wrote a. a. La vérité de la religion chrétienne réformée , Le triomphe de la providence et de la religion .

Works (selection)

  • Traité de la divinité de Jésus-Christ , 1689
  • L'art de se Connoitre soi-même. Ou la Recherche des Sources de la Moral , Rotterdam 1692

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Abbadie, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abbadie, Jacob; Abbadie, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1654
PLACE OF BIRTH Nay (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) , Béarn
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1727
Place of death Mary-le-Bone near London