Augustus Rauschenbusch
Karl August Heinrich Rauschenbusch ( born February 13, 1816 in Herford, † December 5, 1899 in Wandsbek ) was a Baptist theologian who was one of his time in the U.S. and in Germany the leading personalities within his Free Church.
Family
August Rauschenbusch was born into a Protestant pastor's family. His father was Dr. August Ernst noise Castle (1778-1840), pastor of the Lutheran congregation Altena. Rauschenbusch's mother Karoline Theodore Schniewind was daughter of the imperial Freigräven Heinrich Wilhelm Schniewind, the last Westphalian Freigräven.
August Rauschenbach was the father of Frida Fetzer ( born Rauschenbusch ) and Walter Rauschenbusch, the founder of the social gospel. His daughter Winifred Rorty, born Raushenbush, was the mother of the American philosopher Richard Rorty.
Life
Even as a child of six Rauschenbusch began to learn the Latin language under the guidance of his father. A year later, he acquired his first knowledge of the French language, which then was followed by the Ancient Greek. He received his first schooling in Altena; the age of 15, he joined the Prima of Elberfeld High School, which he left in 1833 with the certificate of maturity. After a short time as an assistant and tutor in Altena and Unna to Rauschenbusch matriculated in 1834 at the Theological Faculty of the University of Berlin, which he attended until 1836. His principal teacher there was August Neander.
As zwanzigähriger man experienced August Rauschenbusch an inner conversion. He moved in 1837 to the University of Bonn, studied with Carl Immanuel Nitzsch and put 1841, the ecclesiastical exams from. A year later he became a pastor in the church of his father. This period also saw the establishment of the Westphalian Enthaltsamkeitsvereins, leading scientists of the Rauschenbusch falls.
In 1846 he emigrated to the United States in order to devote himself to the pastoral care of German -Americans. Contacts with Baptists meant that Rauschenbusch 1850 Mississippi Power received the baptism of believers and preachers of several German and English Baptist churches in New York and St. Louis was. A longer missionary journey took him to Australia, where emerged through his ministry many new Baptist churches.
1866 he was appointed lecturer at the Theological Seminary in Rochester. His new job was, among others, in the line whose German-language department. In addition to his teaching, he developed a lively literary activity, and published several Christian periodicals.
After Rauschenbusch had worked in 1888 for a few months in the Baptist church in Frankfurt am Main, he returned in 1890 finally returned to Germany. Until 1892, he knew the pastor ministry in the church Wiesbaden, after which he worked until 1895 once again in Frankfurt. Subsequently, he accepted an appointment to the Theological Seminary at Hamburg.
Importance
Rauschenbusch - as his biographer Frank Fornaçon - shaped like no other of his generation, the German Baptist on both sides of the Atlantic. Especially through his literary work, he took great influence on theology and proclamation of the German Baptist pastors. As co-editor of two hymnals ( faith Harp, Voice of Faith for the communities of the Lord ( 1894) ) he also gave a decisive impetus for the church piety and worship.
Works (selection)
- Adolf Clare Bach and Peter Fleisteden 's martyrdom, as the same are burned on 28 Sept. 1529 at Cologne. 2nd edition, Schwelm: joke, 1845 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf.
- Advice for potential emigrants with special reference to the states along the Mississippi River from Missouri north, and an account of the author 's own trip from Europe to St. Louis, via Niagara Falls and Chicago. An Evangelical Lutheran - minister, the author shows special interest in American religion, 1846
- Description of a voyage from Bremen to New York, Altona 1847
- Some instructions for emigrants to the western states of North America and travel images, Elberfeld and Iserlohn 1848
- The night of the West. A description of civil and spiritual states in the western states of North America, Barmen 1847
- Memoirs of a German - American minister and theologian, recounting his youth in Germany and emigration to America in 1846; activities with the American Tract Society, Principally in Missouri in the 1840's and 1850's; his conversion to the Baptist faith in 1850; and his service with the German Baptist Seminary in Rochester from 1858 to 1888, 1890?
- The emergence of infant baptism, the church and world history according, 1897
- Biblical Images of Women for edification. Teaching of Christian women and virgins, Frankfurt am Main 1897
- The emergence of infant baptism in the third century AD, and the reintroduction of the biblical baptism in the seventeenth century AD. the church and world history according outlined by A.Rauschenbusch, formerly a professor at the Baptist preacher seminar to Rochester in North America. Second very increased edition, Hamburg 1898
- Life story of Roger Williams, the first Baptist preacher in North America and founder of the State of Rhode Iceland, Hamburg 1898
- Handbook of Homiletics for Free Church preacher and city missionaries, 1899