Théodore Monod (pastor)

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Théodore Monod (born November 6, 1836 in Paris , † February 26, 1921 there ) was a French Reformed pastor who was best known as a preacher and hymn poet of the sanctification movement .

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Monod was a son of Frédéric Monod (1794–1863) and Constance de Coninck (1803–1837). The grandfather Jean Monod (1765–1836) had been pastor at the Reformed church Oratoire du Louvre in Paris from 1808 ; the father was from 1820 first adjunct (assistant pastor), from 1832 pastor at the same church. When he left the Reformed Church in France in 1849 to found the Union des Églises évangélique libres de France , his brother Adolphe Monod took over the parish.

Théodore Monod studied law at the Sorbonne from 1855 to 1858 . After graduating from the Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , he became pastor of a French-speaking congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Kankakee , Illinois in 1861 . In September 1863 he returned to Paris to take over the pastoral position of his father, who had lung cancer, at the Chapelle du Nord . Here he was one of the first to support the Mission aux Ouvriers de Paris (later Mission populaire évangélique ) by Robert Whitaker McAll .

In June 1874 Monod was won over to the goals of the Sanctification Movement by Robert Pearsall Smith . Monod took part in pre-conferences in England in the summer and was one of the keynote speakers at the Oxford Union Meeting for the Promotion of Scriptural Holiness in August / September 1874 and the follow-up conference in Brighton in May / June 1875, which was of great importance for the expansion of the sanctification movement in Europe had. As a result, he gave up his ministry to work as a free evangelist. From 1875 to 1879 he published the magazine Liberateur . In 1878 he returned to the Reformed Church in France as pastor at the Temple du Marais , but continued to speak at conferences and evangelizations of the sanctification movement across Europe, including the Keswick conferences . He worked with Theodor Jellinghaus and Otto Stockmayer , on whom he had great influence. In 1892 he took over one of the parish offices at the Oratoire du Louvre .

Monod also emerged as a writer. As early as in the United States in 1862 he wrote the brochure Regardant Jésus , which appeared in English in 1864 under the title Looking unto Jesus and was reprinted into the 20th century. Revival sermons are in the books Le don de Dieu. Allocutions (Paris 1876; English as The gift of God, 1876, German Die Gabe Gottes, 1882) and Life more abundant (1881). Many of his songs were first written in English and then translated into other European languages. His most popular work is the song None of Self And All of Thee (first line O the bitter shame and sorrow ), which he wrote in 1874 and that (first with a melody by James Mountain (1844-1933), later mostly with the melody of James McGranahan (1840–1907)) entered many hymnbooks of the 19th and 20th centuries thanks to the great success at the Oxford conference in the same year. In German it has the title O der bitter torment and grief .

family

Monod was married to his cousin Gertrude Monod (1846-1878), a daughter of the surgeon Gustave Monod (1803-1890) , since 1867 . They had seven sons, two of whom died early, and two daughters. The son Wilfred Monod , also a pastor at the Oratoire , was the father of the writer and typographer Maximilien Vox and the zoologist and Africa researcher Théodore Monod . A second son was born from a second marriage to Emilie Lindop in 1882.

Fonts (selection)

  • Le chrétien et sa croix. Meditation. Ch.Meyrueis, Paris 1865.
    • The Christian and his cross. A meditation. Western Tract & Book Society, Cincinnati n.d.
  • De quoi il s'agit. Quelques mots sur le mouvement d'Oxford. Paris 1875.
  • Considération sur la cure d'âmes . Diss. Montauban 1877.
  • Loin you nid. Poésies. J. Bonhoure, Paris 1882.
  • Au vent la voile. Poésies. Fischbacher, Paris 1898.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustave Monod: La famille Monod. Paris 1890, p. 77 f.
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Siddall Hayward McAll: Robert Whitaker McAll, founder of the McAll mission. Fleming H. Revell Company, London 1896, p. 157 fuö.
  3. ^ Stephan Holthaus : Healing - Healing - Sanctification. The history of the German sanctification and evangelization movement (1874–1909). Brunnen, Gießen 2005, p. 36 f. 40, 47, 56, 91, etc., ISBN 3-7655-9485-7 ; James Gregory: Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists: The Cowper-temples and High Politics in Victorian England. IB Tauris, London 2009, p. 216. 218 et al.
  4. ^ Stephan Holthaus: Healing - Healing - Sanctification. The history of the German sanctification and evangelization movement (1874–1909). Brunnen, Giessen 2005, p. 116, 141, 152; Klaus Arnold: Full and Present Salvation in Christ: Life and Work of Theodor Jellinghaus. Wipf and Stock, 2018, p. 36 f. 48.
  5. ↑ Patrick HARISMENDY: L'Oratoire, du temple à la Paroisse (1870-1905). In: Philippe Braunstein (ed.): L'Oratoire du Louvre et les protestants parisiens. Labor et Fides, Genève 2011, p. 139 f. ( online on the Oratoire du Louvre website ).
  6. ^ O the bitter shame and sorrow. In: The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Online edition ( freely available ); O the bitter shame and sorrow on hymnary.org .
  7. ↑ Gustave Monod: La famille Monod. Paris 1890, p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Monod, Théodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Reformed pastor and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1921
Place of death Paris