Preacher

( " Public statements " Latin praedicare ) A preacher is the meaning of the word according to someone who proclaims something to an audience.

Ecclesiastes in the Bible

A preacher in the Bible is a proclaimer of the divine word. In the Old Testament is mentioned, as in the New Testament in Matthew's Gospel and in Paul's letters in the prophets Isaiah and Micah from a preacher.

Ecclesiastes (Hebrew "Preacher ") is a king Solomon attributed book in the Old Testament, which in the King James Bible " The Ecclesiastes " is in the textbooks under the title.

On various occasions, Jesus of Nazareth was a preacher. In particular, in his Sermon on the Mount and the Olivet Discourse. Both sermons are preserved in the Gospel of Matthew.

Preacher in the Christian churches

A preacher in the Christian churches in the wider sense is the bearer of the biblical message through preaching, through the preaching and exposition of the Word of God according to the Church's teaching. In a narrower sense, the term preacher has many different meanings:

For the propagation and defense of the Christian faith through preaching and teaching an Order of Preachers was founded in 1216 by St. Dominic (Latin ordo fratrum praedicatorum ). The members of this order called the Dominicans or Preachers.

The owner of the donated since the early 15th century Prädikaturen called preacher. They were already in pre-Reformation time well-trained clergy, most of whom had attended a university. In addition to the priest, and usually independently of him, she exercised the office of preaching. During the Reformation, which led to occasional clashes, as the following example shows from Heilbronn, " who of Hailbron dan sea a whole jar ... gehapt zweyerley sermons; the pastor preaches as of Allter ", the preacher, however, according to the new Reformation doctrine.

Because of the emphasis on the preaching clergy of different denominations are mentioned in connection with their function, preacher. For example, there are preacher, court chaplain, university and castle preacher, but there are also the itinerant preacher and not to the clergy belonging lay preacher. In the Mennonite communities are still active lay preacher, which were formerly called Vermaner. Also, in some Protestant churches, there is not theologically preformed spiritual assistants who exercise the office of preaching, so-called preachers and lecturers.

In the country of the Evangelical Church Communities Gnadauer Community Association as well as in some evangelical free churches, and special communities ( cults ) with a Christian background, the institution responsible of the proclamation of the Word preachers are called.

Famous preacher in chronological order

  • Jesus of Nazareth (1st century )
  • Ambrose of Milan ( 4th century)
  • John Chrysostom (4th century )
  • Gregory of Nazianzus (4th century )
  • Bernard of Clairvaux (12th century)
  • Norbert of Xanten (12th century)
  • Francis of Assisi ( 13th century)
  • Meister Eckhart ( 13th/14th c.)
  • Hans Böhm ( timpanist of Niklashausen ) ( 15th century)
  • Girolamo Savonarola (15th century)
  • Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg ( 15th/16th c. )
  • Martin Luther (16th century)
  • Georg Scherer ( 16th century)
  • Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (17th century)
  • Abraham a Sancta Clara ( 17-18 c.)
  • Sebastian Sailer (18th century)
  • John Wesley ( 18th century)
  • George Whitefield (18th century)
  • Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher ( 18th/19th c.)
  • Joachim August Zarnack ( 18th/19th c.)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Krummenacher (19th century)
  • Dwight Lyman Moody (19th century)
  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19th century)
  • Hudson Taylor ( 19th century)
  • Karl Adam diaper ( 19th century)
  • Charles Taze Russell ( 19-20 c.)
  • Franz Eugen Schlachter ( 19-20 c.)
  • Henry Varley ( 19-20 c.)
  • Otto Dibelius ( 20th century)
  • Billy Graham ( 20th century)
  • John Leppich ( 20th century)
  • Martin Niemöller ( 20th century)
  • Kurt Scharf ( 20th century)
  • Helmut Thielicke ( 20th century)
  • Ulrich Parzany ( 20-21 c.)
  • Rainer Angerstein ( 20-21 c.)
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