Richard Baxter
Richard Baxter (born November 12, 1615 in Rowton in Shropshire , † December 8, 1691 in London ) was a Puritan pastor and writer of edification from England .
life and work
In 1641 Baxter became an Anglican clergyman at Kidderminster in Worcestershire and from 1642 was chaplain in the parliamentary army for some time . After the Restoration he lost his office through the Act of Uniformity in 1662 and lived as a preacher in London after the Act of Toleration in 1672. As a respected clergyman who did not want to submit to the state church, Baxter had to endure an 18-month prison sentence from 1685. He is said to have almost achieved the ideal set out in his book Der Evangelische Geistliche ( The Reformed Pastor ). Most famous is his writing the eternal rest of the saints ( The Saints' Everlasting Rest ) from 1650. His The Poetical Works of the Late Richard Baxter were in 1707 published posthumously.
In the doctrine of predestination, he confessed to the milder view of the French Moyse Amyraut (1596–1664). "Baxterianism" is the milder Calvinism called in England , which only accepts the election of a limited number of people for bliss, but does not accept a predetermined rejection.
In his work The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism , Max Weber used Richard Baxter's Christian Directory - in Weber's eyes a “compendium of puritanical moral theology” - as evidence of the connection between ascetic Protestantism and the “spirit of capitalism”.
Memorial days
- Protestant: December 9th in the Protestant name calendar
- Anglican: June 14th
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Baxter, Richard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 431-432.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Publications by and about Richard Baxter in VD 17 .
- Literature by and about Richard Baxter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Richard Baxter in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baxter, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English Puritan pastor and writer of edification |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1615 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rowton , Shropshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1691 |
| Place of death | London |