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  Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig Summary
Kaspar von Schwenckfeld was born in the town of Ossig in Silesia.
Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig (also as Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig) (1490-1561) was a Silesian nobleman who became a Christian Reformer and spiritualist.
Kaspar Schwenkfeld was born in Ossig, Silesia (a small province in central Europe) to noble parents in 1489¹.
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 Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Kaspar Schwenkfeld was born in Ossig, Silesia (a small province in central Europe) to noble parents in 1489¹;.
In 1521, Schwenkfeld began to preach the gospel, and in 1522 won Duke Friedrich II to Protestantism.
In 1561, Schwenkfeld became sick with dysentery, and gradually grew weaker until he died in Ulm on the morning of December 10, 1561.
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 Schwenkfeld von Ossig Kaspar - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Schwenkfeld von Ossig, Kaspar (1490-1561), German theologian, who led the Protestant Reformation in Silesia.
Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig (also as Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig) (1490 - December 10, 1561), was a Silesian nobleman who became a Christian Reformer and spiritualist
Schwenkfeld was in court service with the duke of Liegnitz from 1510 to c
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 Schwenkfeld von Ossig, Kaspar - MSN Encarta
He argued for the complete separation of church and state and he opposed the Lutheran belief in the consubstantiation of the Eucharist, regarding the bread and wine as symbols only.
Schwenkfeld developed his own approach to the Reformation—the Middle Way—which doctrinally lay between the teachings of Luther and those of the Swiss reformer Huldreich Zwingli.
In 1540, Schwenkfeld's published defense of his views, Konfession und Erklärung (Confession and Explanation, 1540), brought an anathema against him from the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League.
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 Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig - Definition, explanation
Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig (1490-1561) was a Silesian nobleman who became a Christian Reformer and spiritualist.
Schwenkfeld did not organize a separate church during his lifetime, but followers seemed to gather around his writings and sermons.
Some of the teachings of Kaspar Schwenkfeld included opposition to war, secret societies, and oath-taking; that the government had no right to command one's conscience; that regeneration is by grace through inner work of the Spirit; that believers feed on Christ spiritually; and that believers must give evidence of regeneration.
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 History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation. | Christian Classics Ethereal ...
During the Interim troubles the city was a stronghold of the Lutheran party headed by Flacius, and laid under the imperial ban (1548).
Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig (1490–1561), a nobleman in the service of the Duke Frederick II.
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 Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig
Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig (1490-1561) was a Protestant spiritualist[?](?).
A nobleman from Liegnitz, he was one of the earliest promoters of the Reformation in Silesia, he came to Reformation principles through Muntzer[?] and Karlstadt[?].
He founded a new sect, which was outlawed in Germany, but his ideas influenced Anabaptism[?], Puritanism in England and the Pietistic Movement[?] on mainland Europe.
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 HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Book 7 Chapter 06
Erhard von Queiss renounced popery in a public sermon, 1524, and resigned his worldly possessions and authority to the Duke (1527), in order to attend better to the spiritual duties of an evangelical bishop.
Georg von Polenz was the chancellor and chief counselor of Albrecht (we may say his Bismarck on a small scale) in this work of transformation.
He died in peace, April 28, 1550, seventy-two years old, and was buried in the cathedral of Konigsberg, the first Protestant bishop and chancellor of the first Prussian Hohenzollern, standing with him on the bridge of two ages with his hand on the Bible and his eye firmly fixed upon the future.
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 Kaspar Schwenkfeld (von Ossig) Biography (1489–1561) Online Encyclopedia Article About Kaspar Schwenkfeld (von Ossig) ...
Kaspar Schwenkfeld (von Ossig) Biography (1489–1561) Online Encyclopedia Article About Kaspar Schwenkfeld (von Ossig) Biography (1489–1561)
Writer and preacher, born in Ossig, E Germany.
In 1734, 40 families emigrated to England, and from there to Pennsylvania, where they formed the Schwenkfelder Church.
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 December 10: Caspar Schwenkfeld's unique views
Two and a quarter centuries after Kaspar Schwenkfeld's death, which was on this day December 10, 1561, small groups of his followers in Pennsylvania continue to follow his teachings.
Kaspar Schwenkfeld was born into the Silesian nobility in 1489, three years before Columbus' famous voyage.
In 1519, Schwenkfeld experienced what he called a "visitation of God." He was deeply affected by the writings of Martin Luther and began a serious study of the Scriptures.
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 Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Kaspar Schwen (C) kfeld of Ossig (* 1490 in Ossig with Liegnitz; 10 December 1561 in Ulm) was a schlesischer Reformator and a religious writer.
May 1935 in Leningrad) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin of the futuristic painting and founder of the Suprematismus originating from an originally Polish family.
Karl Ernst von Baer (* 28 February 1792 on property beep (estnisch: Piibe), today municipality Rakke, in Estonia; 28 November 1876 in Dorpat/Tartu, Estonia) was a natural scientist.
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 languagehat.com: VAIN ORNAMENTATION.
> The Amish example is the "one-gallus Schwenkfelders", the sect that broke off from the orthodox Schwenkfelders because two overall straps were considered to be unneeded to hold the overalls up and therefore "vain ornamentation".
Me, I'm grateful to him, for bringing the Schwenkfelders and their founder, Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, to my attention.
I can't comment on Pennsylvania German, but as to the Schwenkfelders, it looks to me like there is an misapprehension that they are Amish.
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 Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig
Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig: Encyclopedia II - Melchior Hoffman - Life
He was born at Schwäbisch Hall in Franconia before 1500.
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Early commentators of note were the Austrian Roman Catholic Baron Friedrich von Hügel, the British poet and writer Evelyn Underhill, the American Quaker Rufus Jones, the Anglican prelate William Inge, and the German theologian Rudolf Otto.
In the city were followers of the spiritualist Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig (1489-1551) and other groups who took interest in the work of the alchemist Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim -known as Paracelsus- (1493-1541), and the nature mystic Valentine Weigel (1533-1588).
Although we are led to beleive that Boehme was a reader and was informed of the various teachings in his city, it is nonetheless certain that his doctrine cannot be explained by influences ow by borrowings.
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 Melchior Hoffman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In May he travelled to East Frisia, where he baptized about 300 people and established churches.
He was in relations with Schwenkfeld and with Karlstadt, but assumed a prophetic role of his own.
Menno Simons accepted this view, probably received from the peaceful Melchiorites Obbe and Dirk Philips, and it became the general belief of Dutch Anabaptists in the first century of their existence.
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 The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia
(Schwenckfeld; Schwenkfeldt; Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig; Casper; Caspar; ca.
Cologne and Frankfurt an der Oder; not ordained; Hofrat Liegnitz 1518–23; supported the Reformation from probably 1517/18, helped introd.
it in Silesia, but was soon estranged from it; rejected justification, Scripture as the only source and norm of faith, efficacy of sacraments as means of grace, pedobaptism, and the AC; fled persecution from place to place; followers called Schwenkfelders* or Schwenkfeldians.
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