Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter (* November 12, 1615 at Rowton in Shropshire, † December 8, 1691 in London) was a Puritan clergyman and devotional writer from England.

Life

1641, he was an Anglican clergyman to Kidderminster in Worcestershire and was from 1642 onwards for some time chaplain in the parliamentary army. After the Restoration he lost by the Act of Uniformity in 1662 and lived his office after the adoption of toleration Act 1672 as a preacher in London. A respected clergyman who did not want to submit to the State Church, Baxter had to suffer a 18-month prison from 1685. That in his book The Protestant clergyman (The Reformed Pastor ) established ideal he should himself have almost reached. The most famous of his writing is the eternal rest of the saints ( The Saints ' Everlasting Rest) of 1650. 's Doctrine of predestination he pleaded for milder view of the French Amyraut Moyse ( 1596-1664 ).

" Baxterianismus " is called in England the milder Calvinism, which, although only accepts the election of a limited number of people to salvation, but no predetermined warp.

In his work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber Richard Baxter's Christian Directory moved - in Weber's eyes, a " compendium of the Puritan moral theology " - as evidence of the connection between ascetic Protestantism and " spirit of capitalism " approach. His Poetical Works of the Late The Richard Baxter were published posthumously in 1707.

Anniversaries

• Evangelical: December 9, in the name Evangelical Calendar
• Anglican: June 14