Theodor Undereyck

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The Protestant pastor and pietist Theodor Undereyck (1635–1693)

Theodor Undereyck (born June 15, 1635 in Duisburg , † January 1, 1693 in Bremen ) was a Protestant pastor, spiritual writer and pioneer of pietism in the German Reformed churches .

biography

Undereyck was the son of the businessman Gerhard Undereyck and his wife Sara, née Salanger. In 1636, after his parents died from the plague, he grew up with his uncle Johann Undereyck in Alstaden .

From 1653 to 1658 he studied Protestant theology in Duisburg , Utrecht and Leiden , among others with Gisbert Voetius and Johannes Coccejus (a student of Ludwig Crocius ). Although some of his teachers were contrary to one another, they were Orthodox Reformed theologians and representatives of the Nadere Reformatie . Coccejus in particular shaped him strongly in the direction of federal theological thinking, so that he was also referred to as one of the " great catechists of Coccejanism ". Voetius influenced him in the direction of a Puritan way of life and the emphasis on the importance of Christian conventicles . In 1658/1659 Undereyck went on a study trip to Switzerland, France and England.

In 1660 he became pastor of the Reformed community in Mülheim an der Ruhr . There he introduced the first Pietist conventicles in Germany from around 1661. From 1668 he was extraordinary court preacher in Kassel to Landgravine Hedwig Sophie (1623–1683).

In 1670 he became pastor primarius in the parish of St. Martini in Bremen and remained so until the end of his life. In Bremen, despite initial difficulties with the clergy, he pushed through his reforms and helped pietism to break through. His followers Joachim Neander and Cornelius de Hase (whose funeral sermon provides valuable biographical information on Undereyck) continued Undereyck's work.

Undereyck published five books, including two catechisms and a lay dogmatics, in which he conveyed the ideas of the English and Dutch Reformed theology to German-speaking readers in edifying language. His largest and most demanding work was devoted to combating the emerging atheism .

Fonts

  • Bride of Christ / Among the daughters of Laodicaea / That is / A most necessary treatise / In these last days. In it the living power of the blissful faith of all shame = speeches of the Christian = seeming mockers at this time / not only from H. Schrifft: but also from the testimony of the same wording of the godly experienced men in it and divinely learned men who are purified and defended . Hanau 1670; 2nd edition Cassel 1697
  • Guide of the simple-minded to the first letters of true Christianity, mostly according to the order of the five main parts of Christian religion . Bremen 1676
  • Hallelujah / That is / GOD transfigured in the sinner. Or the sinner's walking stick for the discovery / enjoyment / and transfiguration of GOD / as the highest good . Bremen 1678; 2nd edition Herborn 1722; Dutch translation 1684; German excerpt from the German version of the German version of the German version: Marital yes-word of the believing soul Edited by Ch. Staehelin. Bern 1719; 2nd edition Bern 1731
  • The simple-minded Christian / united with Christ through true faith / and after frequent abuse / for the right use of the Holy Communion / that the Lord Jesus will [...] take vengeance with flames of fire / for whom God does not know / and does not are obedient to the Euangelio of our Lord Jesus Christ / 2nd thesal. 1.8 [...] . Bremen 1681; 2nd edition Eschwege 1700
  • The foolish atheist / discovered and convinced of his folly / in two parts in the first / as such / who knowingly and deliberately / wants to take / take himself and others / the thoughts / which they have from God. In the second / as such / who is ignorant and unmarked / even under the appearance of true Christianity / lives without God in the world . Bremen 1689; 2nd edition Bremen 1722; Dutch translation Amsterdam 1702.

swell

  1. ↑ Jürgen Moltmann , quoted from: Werner Raupp:  Undereyck, Theodor. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1439-1443.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

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SURNAME Undereyck, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reformed clergyman, writer and pietist pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1693
Place of death Bremen