Volkstheologie, oder, Von der Freiheit anders zu denken : der Unterricht in der christlichen Religion bei Helias Meder (1761-1825) / Hans-Georg Ulrichs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ulrichs, Hans-Georg, 1966-

Series:

Studien zur Kirchengeschichte Niedersachsens ; Bd. 42.

Studien zur Kirchengeschichte Niedersachsens

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Meder, Helias, 1761-1825.

Meder, Helias.

Religious education--Germany--History--18th century.

Religious education.

Religious education--Germany--History--19th century.

History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

625 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : V&R Unipress, 2009.

Summary:

This volume is devoted to Helias Meder (1761-1825), a theologian in the late Enlightenment who understood his ministerial task above all as a teaching ministry. He received significant impulses from the reformatorische verligting at the University of Groningen. From his first parish in the Groningen countryside, he moved to his home town of Emden, where he soon became the leading reformed theologian in East Friesland. In addition to some occasional theological writings, Meder published a multi-volume interpretation of the Emden Catechism. In the decade before the turn of the century and again shortly before his death, he wrote books of instruction in the Christian faith which were adapted in form and content to the age of the groups being addressed and had various different functions. The books are embedded in the catechetical tradition of the reformed church, but like other contemporary works pursue new paths without following fashionable philanthropism. Meder's last textbook was valued unitl after the middle of the century as a presentation of standard theology. German text.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Pädagogische Hochschule, Karlsruhe, 2008/2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783899715675

3899715675

OCLC:

419644605