Johannes Warns

Johannes Warns (born January 21, 1874 in Osteel ( East Frisia ), † January 27, 1937 in Wiedenest ) was a Protestant theologian , Bible school teacher and director of the Wiedenest Bible School (today Forum Wiedenest ).

Life

Johannes Warns came from an East Frisian pastor's family. His father worked as an Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Osteel and Remels . Warns studied theology in Greifswald, Halle, Berlin and Bonn and was a member of the Greifswald, Halle , Berliner and Bonn Wingolf . As a young vicar, he witnessed a spiritual awakening within the Protestant parish of Schildesche near Bielefeld . In 1905 he was appointed to teach at the newly founded "Bible School for Inner and Outer Mission" in Berlin , whose headquarters were relocated to Wiedenest in Oberbergischen in 1919 and which is now known as Forum Wiedenest . Warns was its director until the end of his life in 1937.

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In his writings, Johannes Warns dealt with fundamental ecclesiological questions (including baptism , the Lord's Supper , congregational regulations), in which he consistently represented free-church positions. Warns is also of importance for the development and establishment of free-church Protestant congregations in Eastern Europe , with which he maintained intensive contacts through numerous visits before the First World War .

Fonts

• (Ed. :) Truth in love - booklets for understanding the community movement , Berlin 1904-08
• Baptism. Thoughts on Christian baptism, its history and its significance for the present. A memory of Dr. E. Zickendrath , Hamburg 1913 (Dresden 1914, Bad Homburg 1922, Cassel 1922)
• Thoughts on a scriptural celebration of the Lord's Supper , Bern 1917, Bad Homburg 1920, Kreuztal 1948
• State Church ? People's Church ? Free Church ? A guide through today's church turmoil for questioning Christians , Bad Homburg 1920
• Russia and the Gospel. Pictures from the evangelical movement of the so-called Stundism , Kassel 1920
• Limits to the interpretation of scriptures , Witten 1922
• (with Emil Hamburg :) Past, present and future in the light of the Bible with 1 tarpaulin , Heltau 1922
• Short textbook of New Testament Greek for school and self-teaching , Gotha 1925
• 500 drafts for biblical addresses , Bern 1932
• Georg Müller and John Nelson Darby. A look back at the so-called Bethesda dispute in Bristol in 1848 , Wiedenest 1936 ( online ; PDF; 266 kB)

literature

• Literature by and about Johannes Warns in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ralph Tuchtenhagen :  Johannes Warns. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 374-375.
• Ernst Schrupp : Warns, Johannes (1874–1937) . In: Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation , Vol. 3, R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal / Zurich 1994.
• Ulrich Bister (Ed.): Johannes Warns: Truth in Love (A source-historical reading book). With an introduction by Gerd Goldmann and a short biography by Matthias Schmidt. jota publications, Hammerbrücke 2005.

Web links

• Biography of Johannes Warns ; Retrieved January 9, 2009