KasparSchwenkfeldvonOssig (also as Caspar Schwenckfeld vonOssig) (1490 - December 10, 1561), was a Silesian nobleman who became a ChristianReformer and spiritualist
Schwenkfeld was in court service with the duke of Liegnitz from 1510 to c
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.
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 KasparSchwenkfeld 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.
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.
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.
Two and a quarter centuries after KasparSchwenkfeld's death, which was on this day December 10, 1561, small groups of his followers in Pennsylvania continue to follow his teachings.
KasparSchwenkfeld 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.
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.
> 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, KasparSchwenkfeldvonOssig, 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.
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 vonOssig (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.
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.
(Schwenckfeld; Schwenkfeldt; KasparSchwenkfeldvonOssig; Casper; Caspar; ca.
Cologne and Frankfurt an der Oder; not ordained; Hofrat Liegnitz 151823; 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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