Jean de Labadie

Jean de Labadie ( born February 13, 1610, but in Bourg in Bordeaux, † February 13, 1674 in Altona ) was a mystic and pietistic separatist.

Life

Jean de Labadie studied as a young man of French Jesuit colleges and joined this Order. He soon left the Order in 1639 at his own request, for alleged health reasons. Shortly before, he had been ordained priest. Already during his studies he had mystical experiences that led him to believe that he should perceive an important task in the service of the Kingdom of God. The next ten years he worked as an itinerant preacher.

On October 16, 1650, he converted to the Reformed Church. From Montauban, where he had been employed as a preacher in 1652 and cooperated with the local Reformed Academy, he was exiled and took over the same office in 1657 in Orange and 1659 in Geneva. Here is an avid group of followers gathered around him. He held special meetings, similar to the conventicles of the Dutch Nadere Reformatie. This circle he regarded as the true church, modeled along the lines of early Christianity. Philipp Jakob Spener Also, the founder of Pietism in the Lutheran churches in Germany, was one of his sermon listeners and was influenced by him. His prophetic claim and its deviations from the Calvinist orthodoxy but also aroused opposition, especially his chiliastic views. Nevertheless, they tried Labadie, who has been hailed by his admirers as the second Calvin to hold in Geneva, when he got in 1666 a call to Middelburg in Zeeland. However Labadie participated in this appeal.

In the Netherlands, had his work a very different response. In addition to many followers, which he won in his sphere, other representatives of the Nadere Reformatie translated critically on him. His goal in Middelburg was like in Geneva to establish the true church of born-again within the existing church.

Through his work as a writer his ideas were widespread. Its usually written in French works have been translated into Dutch, partly in German. For a Christian life as followers of Jesus his renunciation of the world was particularly important. The doctrine of the Holy Spirit gets in his mind a central position, as well as in the teaching of the Holy Scriptures. When his colleague Louis Utrecht Wolzogen propagates a practical rational interpretation of Scripture, Labadie protested violently. The Holy Spirit speaks after Wolzogen only in the Holy Scriptures. For him Labadies is considered that this speaks outside of Scripture, rapturously. In dealing with Labadie, the Walloon Synod establishes the Wolzogen side and suspended Labadie. In 1669 he was finally deposed and expelled from fear of unrest in the country.

With his followers, he was taken in Amsterdam, where he trained with them a free house church. His separation from the Reformed Church alienated the supporters of Nadere Reformatie final of Labadie.

Through the mediation of Anna Maria von Schurmann, who had joined the Labadisten, the group emigrated to Herford and, as him in 1672 an edict of the Imperial Supreme Court also expelled from there, to Bremen and finally to Altona, where Labadie then died in 1674. In the same year, the community went back to the Netherlands, where they persisted in Wieuwerd in West Friesland as " Reformed and secreted by the world community " until the 18th century. Important defender of labadistischen community and its theology was Pierre Yvon ( 1646-1707 ).

His followers, the Labadisten, though hardly differed externally from the doctrine of the Reformed Church from, but desired a Catholic monastic ideal of life after and lived in community of hand work. Under Labadies followers to name the learned Anna Maria drew from Schürmann.

Works

• Introduction à la piété dans les Mystères, Paroles et ceremonies de la Messe, Amiens, 1642.
• Odes sacrées sur le Très - et adorable auguste Mystère du S. Sacrement de l' Autel, Amiens, 1642.
• Traité de la Solitude chrestienne, ou la vie du siècle retiree, Paris, 1645.
• Déclaration de Jean de Labadie, cy -devant Prestre, prédicateur chanoine et d' Amiens, contenant les raisons qui l' ont obligé à quitter la communion de l' Eglise Romaine pour se ranger à celle de l' Eglise Réformée, Montauban, in 1650.
• Lettre de Jean de Labadie à ses amis de la Communion Romaine touchant sa Declaration, Montauban, 1651st
• Les elevation d'esprit à Dieu, ou sur les Contemplations continued instruisantes plus grands Mysteres de la Foy, Montauban, 1651st
• Les Entretiens durant le jour d'esprit; ou Reflexions sur la vie humaine importantes ... sur le Christianisme, ... sur le besoin de la Reformation de ses Moeurs, Montauban, 1651st
• Le Bon Usage de l' Eucharist, Montauban, 1656.
• Practique of Oraisons, mental Vocale et ..., Montauban, 1656.
• Recueil de quelques Maximes importantes de Doctrine, de Conduite et de piété Chrestienne, Montauban, 1657 ( puis Genève, 1659).
• Les Saintes décades de quatrains de piété Chretienne touchant à la Connoissance de Dieu, son honneur, son amour et l' union de l' âme avec lui, Orange, 1658 (Geneva, 1659, Amsterdam, 1671).
• La pratique de l' oraison et meditation Chretienne, Geneva, 1660.
• Le Iûne ou le moyen de religieus le bien faire, Geneva, 1665th
• Jugement charitable et juste sur l' état ​​des Juifs present, Amsterdam 1667.
• Le Triomphe de l' Eucharist, ou la vraye doctrine du St. Sacrement, avec les moyens d' y bien participer, Amsterdam, 1667.
• Héraut Le Roy du Grand Jesus, ou Eclaircissement de la doctrine de Jean de Labadie, pasteur, sur le Règne glorieux de Jésus- Christ et de ses saints en la terre aux derniers temps, Amsterdam, 1667.
• L' Idée d' un bon pasteur et d'une bonne Eglise, Amsterdam, 1667.
• Les Divins Herauts de la Penitence au Monde ..., Amsterdam, 1667.
• La Reformation de l' Eglise par le pastorate, Middelburg, 1667.
• Le Veritable Exorcisme, Amsterdam, 1667.
• Le Veritable discernement d'une Eglise suivant l' ecriture Sainte, Amsterdam, 1668th
• La Puissance eclesiastique bornée à l' ecriture et par ... Elle, Amsterdam, 1668th
• Manuel de Pieta, Middelburg 1668th
• Declaration Chrestienne et de plusieurs sincère Membres de l' Eglise de Dieu et de Jésus-Christ touchant les Juste Raisons et les Motifs qui les obligent n'avoir à point de Communion avec le dit Synod Vualon, La Haye, 1669th
• Points fondamentaux de la vie vraimant Chretiene, Amsterdam in 1670.
• Abrégé you Veritable Christianisme et Téoretique et pratique ..., Amsterdam, in 1670.
• Le Chant du Grand Royal Roy Jésus, ou les Hymnes Cantiques et de l' Aigneau ..., Amsterdam, in 1670.
• Receüil de Chansons diverses Spiritüeles, Amsterdam, in 1670.
• L'Empire du S. Esprit sur ​​les Ames ..., Amsterdam, 1671st
• Eclaircissement Declaration ou de la Foy et de la pureté of sentimens en la doctrine of Srs. Jean de Labadie, Pierre Yvon, Pierre Dulignon ..., Amsterdam, 1671st
• Veritas sui vindex, seu fidei Solemnis declaratio ... Herfordiae, 1672.
• Jesus révèle de nouveau ..., Altona, in 1673.
• Ask Mens de quelques poesies sentimens et d'esprit ..., Amsterdam, 1678th
• Poésies sacrées de l' amour divin, Amsterdam, 1680.
• Recueil de Cantiques spirituels, Amsterdam, 1680.
• Le Chretien Regenere ou nul, Amsterdam, 1685.