Johannes Seitz

Johannes Seitz (born February 6, 1839 in Neuweiler ; † July 4, 1922 in Bad Brambach ) was a German evangelist of the community movement , co-founder of the Württemberg Christ Union and founder of the Evangelical Carmel Mission .

Life

Seitz grew up in a peasant family that was shaped by the revival piety of Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Dorothea Trudel . The faith healings of Dorothea Trudel belonged to the experiences of his childhood and youth .

He completed two and a half years of training in the mission school of the German Temple and then worked as an evangelist in Stuttgart. During a trip to Palestine to the temple settlement in 1872, there was a break with the leader of the temple society, Pastor Christoph Hoffmann , whom Seitz accused of rationalism in his theology. Despite the break, Seitz continued to work for the Temple Society, but followed further developments critically. Finally, in 1877, he was deposed from the temple leadership as an evangelist and excluded from the temple society.

In 1878, Seitz was one of the founders of the "Evangelical Brothers' Union" (today: Württembergischer Christusbund ), together with Martin Blaich (1820–1903) and others . In 1881/82 he founded the Evangelical Carmel Mission .

He worked as an evangelist in Silesia , Posen , Saxony , Brandenburg , Pomerania and East Prussia , founded and directed Christian rest homes in Preußisch-Bahnau / East Prussia (founded in 1893) and Teichwolframsdorf / Thuringia (founded in 1898). Although there were also miraculous healings in his facilities and Seitz was ascribed the gift of healing the sick, he was a resolute opponent of the Pentecostal movement throughout his life . In 1909 he was one of the signatories of the Berlin Declaration , which described the Pentecostal movement as "from below".

Seitz was married to Luise (1867-1919).

Works

Memories and experiences. My story. 5th edition, Verlag Linea, Bad Wildbad 2009, ISBN 978-3-939075-33-2 .
A clarifying word against Pastor Paul's work “On the Demon Question”. Keip, Berlin 1963.

literature

Jörg Ohlemacher : Seitz, Johannes (1839–1922). In: Helmut Burkhardt, Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation. Volume 3, R. Brockhaus, Witten 1994.
Werner Raupp (Ed.): Lived Faith. Experiences and life testimonies from our country. A reader. Metzingen / Württ .: Ernst Franz-Verlag 1993, pp. 256-258, 392 (inlet, source texts, lit.).
Max Runge: Johannes Seitz and the dawn of the newer community movement. 3rd edition, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1969.
J. Jürgen Seidel : Johannes Seitz. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 1443-1444.

Web links

Literature by and about Johannes Seitz in the catalog of the German National Library
Johannes Seitz on the website of the Württemberg Christ Association, accessed on August 13, 2012.
Johannes Weber: Johannes Seitz ( Memento from April 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on horst-koch.de, accessed on August 13, 2012.

Individual evidence

^ Carsten Claussen: Seitz, Johannes . In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 4th edition. tape 8 , no. 7 . UTB, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-8401-5 , Sp. 1144 .
↑ Der Reichsbrüderbund ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Württemberg Christ Association (accessed on August 14, 2012) @1@ 2
^ Stephan Holthaus: Healing - Healing - Sanctification. The history of the German sanctification and evangelization movement (1874–1909) . Theological Publishing Community (TVG) im Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2005, ISBN 3-7655-9485-7 , p. 282 .
↑ Ekkehart Vetter : Balance of the century - fascinated by the awakening and tried out by the thirst. Missionsverlag of the Mülheim Association of Free Church Evangelical Congregations, Mülheim ad Ruhr 2009, p. 113 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Seitz, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German evangelist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuweiler
DATE OF DEATH	4th July 1922
Place of death	Bad Brambach

[1] Carsten Claussen: Seitz, Johannes . In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 4th edition. tape 8 , no. 7 . UTB, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-8401-5 , Sp. 1144 .

[2] Der Reichsbrüderbund ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Württemberg Christ Association (accessed on August 14, 2012) @1@ 2

[3] Stephan Holthaus: Healing - Healing - Sanctification. The history of the German sanctification and evangelization movement (1874–1909) . Theological Publishing Community (TVG) im Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2005, ISBN 3-7655-9485-7 , p. 282 .

[4] Ekkehart Vetter : Balance of the century - fascinated by the awakening and tried out by the thirst. Missionsverlag of the Mülheim Association of Free Church Evangelical Congregations, Mülheim ad Ruhr 2009, p. 113 f.