Edward Irving
Edward Irving (* August 4, 1792 in Annan, Dumfriesshire, † December 8, 1834 in Edinburgh) was one of the pioneers of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Until the late 20th century, the Catholic Apostolic movement was also called " Irvingism " and members " Irvingites ". This is based on the historically false thesis, Edward Irving was the founder of this movement and its leading figure.
Life
Irving came from a Scottish farmer's family, which went back to Huguenot refugees. At age 13, he already visited the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1809. In 1823 he married to pressure her family his longtime fiancee Isabella Martin, although he was actually a deep and long-standing romance with Jane Welsh used, the essayist Thomas Carlyle later the wife. In 1815 he received the sermon permission of the Scottish Presbyterian Church. To get a church job, he moved in 1818 to Edinburgh. In 1819 he was appointed on the initiative of Thomas Chalmers as his assistant and missionary to the parish of St. John in Glasgow. In 1822, he became a preacher of a small, newly founded community of the Scottish National Church in London, where he quickly gained notoriety.
For years, occupied him the phenomenon of prophecy. Through his friend, the London banker Henry Drummond, he was invited to the " Albury - conferences " on his country estate. He was her most prominent guest, and they in turn influenced him, so that the Holy Spirit and the essence of the Church of the center of his theological thinking was. In May 1828, he undertook a crusade trip to his Scottish homeland. Due to the great success he repeated it the following year. He met with local preachers first refusal.
Due to the work of James Haldane Stewart came in 1830 in Scotland to spiritual awakenings. This aroused great interest within the Albury - circle and were examined in particular by John Bate Cardale and recognized as divinely there.
Cardale was soon expelled from the Anglican Church and held to the municipality of Irving. This experienced soon after, even the spiritual gifts and had them in his public church services. He was against the order of the Scottish National Church and was excluded on May 2, 1832. Four days later he stopped in front of 800 believers their own worship in a rented hall.
The first Catholic Apostolic congregation was established in Albury. Later Cardale was called to be an apostle in Irving's church, which meant that all power and authority now lay the apostles and not the preacher Irving. This an ecclesiastical process was made on 13 March 1833 in his Scottish home town of Annan, who led the final exclusion and loss of ordination. Back in London, had to learn the success familiar preacher, that the Apostle Cardale refused him a baptism, because he lacked the ordination. On April 5, 1833, however, Irving ( = bishop) became an angel called and ordained. Eighteen months later, he died on a trip to Scotland at the age of only 42 years, and before he was able to develop a great work in the service of the "new " church.
Writings
During his lifetime, published by Irving following works:
- For the Oracles of God. Four Orations (1823 )
- For Judgment to Come (1823 )
- Introduction to George Horne, A Commentary on the Book of Psalms (1825 )
- Babylon and Infidelity foredoomed (1826 )
- Introduction to Juan Josaphat Ben Ezra [= Manuel de Lacunza ], The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty (1827 )
- Sermons (3 volumes, 1828)
- Exposition of the Book of Revelation (1831 )
His collected writings were published in five volumes, 1864-65 by Gavin Carlyle.