Format:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1871-2428
Content:
This contribution connects the issue of spiritual leadership with the religious ideas and ecclesiastical and social environment of a seventeenth-century Dutch preacher, dr. Simon Oomius (1630–1706). Oomius represents the movement known as the Further Reformation (Nadere Reformatie), or Reformed Pietism. The focus is on his perception of old age. Through a close reading of his treatise Cierlyke Kroon, this article highlights a specimen of pastoral leadership associated with the seventeenth-century Dutch Reformed theologia ascetica. Seven qualities for his spiritual leadership can be traced: Oomius’s own old age, his spirituality, academic education, use of examples, hermeneutic competence, ability to empathise, and spiritual training.
In:
Church history and religious culture, Leiden : Brill, 2006, 95(2015), 2/3, Seite 256-273, 1871-2428
In:
volume:95
In:
year:2015
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number:2/3
In:
pages:256-273
Language:
English
Keywords:
Oomius, Simon 1628-1706
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Älterer Mensch
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Pietismus
DOI:
10.1163/18712428-09502004
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