Johann Peter Müller

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Johann Peter Müller (* December 25, 1709 ; † September 25, 1796 ) was a Palatinate Baptist who emigrated from Alsenborn and gained importance as a theologian in the Ephrata Monastery in Pennsylvania .

Life

Johann Peter Müller was the son of the reformed pastor Johannes Müller, who was pastor in Zweikirchen-Rothselberg and Wolfstein from 1707 to 1714 . While his father 1714-1726 pastor in Alsenborn was enrolled Johann Peter at the University of Heidelberg as Johannes Petrus Mullemus, Altzbornensis. After graduation, he was given permission to preach, but he was not allowed to baptize because he was apparently not yet ordained .

In 1730 he sailed on the ship " Thistle of Glasgow, Colin Dun-Iap, Master " from Rotterdam via Dover to Philadelphia . Müller was one of about 260 people from the Palatinate on the ship. The day after their arrival, the newcomers had to swear an oath of allegiance to their new authorities and swear off their previous masters (Declaration of Fidelity and Abjuration).

A short time after his arrival, Johann Peter Müller (now: John Peter Miller ) was asked by the Reformed in Philadelphia , Germantown and by a part of the parish in Skippak (Schipbach), who were dissatisfied with their pastor , to take over the pastor's position .

To be ordained to he had one in Latin drafted language justification to write and deliver a sermon. Above all, his knowledge of Latin was recognized. In a letter from his examiners it says:

He is an extraordinary person for sense and learning. We gave him a question to discuss about justification, and he has answered it in a whole sheet of paper, in very notable manner. His name is John Peter Müller, and he speaks Latin as we do our vernacular tongue.

“He is an extraordinary personality in terms of knowledge and skills. We had him discuss justification as a test question, and he answered it in a very remarkable way on a single piece of paper. His name is John Peter Miller and he speaks Latin as fluently as we do our mother tongue. "

On November 20, 1730, Johann Peter Muller was ordained in Philadelphia by the three Presbyterian pastors who had examined him.

Müller praised the freedom in America that allows congregations to choose their preachers themselves. Christians are free and have none but Christ over them.

In Germantown, Müller turned to the Anabaptists .

The book burning that Müller organized was spectacular. The Heidelberg Catechism and the Lutheran Catechism , the interpretation of the Psalms of David, the “Garden of Paradise” and the “Exercise of Justice” were burned .

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SURNAME Müller, Johann Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1709
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1796