Theodor Jellinghaus

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Theodor Jellinghaus (born June 21, 1841 in Schluesselburg , † October 4, 1913 in Berlin ) was a Protestant missionary and theologian. With numerous books, tracts and essays and by founding a Bible school , he made significant contributions to popularizing the idea of ​​sanctification in the German community movement .

Grave of Theodor Jellinghaus in the Lichtenrade cemetery

Life

After a strictly pietistic upbringing at home, the pastor's son Jellinghaus studied Protestant theology and had been a missionary in India on behalf of the Gossner Mission since 1866 . In 1870 he returned to his homeland and was first a village pastor in Rädnitz and in 1881 in Gütergotz near Potsdam. During his participation in the sanctification meetings in Oxford and Brighton (1874/1875) Jellinghaus was won over by Robert Pearsall Smith for the sanctification movement , in whose expansion in Germany he participated since then. In 1880/81 he wrote the book The complete, present salvation through Christ , in order to process the thoughts of the sanctification movement theologically and to reproduce them in a weakened form. He tried to combine the American ideas of sanctification with the German Reformation ideas. Another pioneering achievement was the establishment of a Bible school in his parsonage in Gütergotz in 1885, which he retired early in 1894 due to temporary depression, later continued in Berlin and which moved into his own house in Lichtenrade in 1904 . In 1888 he was involved in the first Gnadau conference .

At the beginning of the 20th century, Jellinghaus was concerned about the development of the community movement that he himself had a major influence on. In 1902, for example, he took part in the convening of a conference to mediate between the community movement, academic theology and the church, from which the Eisenacher Bund emerged in 1905 . When the rise of the Pentecostal movement in 1907 led to a serious crisis in the community movement, Jellinghaus declared for the first time that he was no longer in accordance with the teachings acquired in Oxford and Brighton. There has not yet been a public revocation due to another serious illness. In 1911, however, he issued a statement about my doctrinal errors and accused himself of deviating from the biblical-Reformation doctrine of atonement through the doctrine of the directly sanctifying power of the blood of Christ.

The grave of Theodor Jellinghaus (and other members of the large family) is in the cemetery of the Ev. Parish of Berlin-Lichtenrade.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Lange: A movement is breaking new ground : The German communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their position on the church, theology and the Pentecostal movement . 1979
  2. ^ Jörg Ohlemacher: Community Christianity in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: History of Pietism . Vol. 3, Göttingen 2000, p. 435.
personal data
SURNAME Jellinghaus, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Missionary and one of the initiators of the German community movement
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Key castle
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1913
Place of death Berlin