#theologian

[yieldfruit]

Contentment, Prosperity, and God’s Glory

Jeremiah Burroughs (1599–1646)

[scotianostra]

On 17th March 1565, Alexander Ales (also known as Alesius and Aless), theologian and reformer, died.

Alesius played an important role linking the Reformations of Scotland, with Germany, and England. He is believed to have been planning to translate Luther’s German Bible into Scots, but it’s more likely that he intended to use the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts which Luther himself had used. These were dangerous times in Scotland, the reformation was just kicking off Patrick Hamilton, a friend of Ales was burnt at the stake for heresy, he himself was tried in his absence and also found guilty of heresy, by this time he had fled it is said to have been the first Scot to meet Jean Calvin, Calvin and Ales were both refugees in Germany at the time.

He also spent time in England he was occasionally referred to as Alexander Alesius, Scotus, Doctor Theologiae, Henry VIII had broke with the church of Rome, I found a short snippet on a page about Anne Boleyn, Alexander was visiting the English court at Greenwich Palace, there he witnessed Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn had an argument. He couldn’t hear what it was about but it was clear to him that the King was angry.

Six weeks later the Queen lost her head!

After a time teaching at Cambridge he ended up back in Germany where in Leipzig he passed the remainder of his days in peace and honour, and was twice elected Rector of the University there.

You can find more on the man here https://www.tudorsociety.com/alexander-ales-alesius/

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Title/Name: Martin Luther, (1483–1546). Bio: German priest, theologian, author, hymn writer, professor, and Augustinian friar. Country: Germany Wojak Series: Grug (Variant) Image by: Unknown Main Tag: Martin Luther Wojak

[thepastisalreadywritten]

“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”

— Søren Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian."

-- Denis Diderot

Faith is pretending blindness is acuity, ignorance is insight.

[stoicmike]

On the subject of evil, the theologians can only say, “That is a really difficult problem.” -- Michael Lipsey

[vox-anglosphere]

Reverend George Herbert - poet, priest, theologian, Anglican mystic

George Herbert memorial windows: Bemerton & Westminster Abbey

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Today I learned the great theologian Karl Barth once met Billy Graham.

He liked Graham…until he heard him preach.

[Via David Dark]

[theidealistphilosophy]

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be.

[fieriframes]

[Then you'll bring it out here and then break it into whatever format they want it, correct? Exactly. And Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories their Italian sausage recipes, as well. His Italian sausage is second to none.]

[yieldfruit]

Charles Spurgeon, 1865

[scotianostra]

On May 30th 1847, Thomas Chalmers, the Presbyterian cleric, theologian and social reformer, died.

Born in Anstruther, Fife, on 17 March 1780 Chalmers was educated first at the parish school and then at St. Andrews University where he became a keen mathematician and scientist. He also wanted to be a preacher and when he became a Minister at Kilmeny in Fife, in 1803, he also gave lectures on Chemistry at St. Andrews.

As a preacher he made his name at the Tron Church from 1815, and at St. John's Parish, Glasgow, from 1820. In 1828, Chalmers became Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh University, and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1832. Within the Church, Chalmers was the leader of the Evangelical party, and as such he proposed the Veto Act which gave some power to the parishes to reject a minister proposed by the patron.

This stand against patronage contributed to the Disruption in 1843 when joined around one third of Church ministers in forming the Free Church of Scotland. He became the first Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland and shortly afterwards resigned his Chair at Edinburgh University. He was the first Principal and Professor of Divinity of the Free Church's New College.

On 28th May 1847 Chalmers returned to his house at Morningside, Edinburgh, from a journey to London on the subject of national education. On the following day (Saturday) he was employed in preparing a report to the General Assembly of the Free Church, then sitting. On Sunday, the 30th, he continued in his usual health and spirits, and retired to rest with the intention of rising at an early hour to finish his report. The next morning he did not make his appearance, and he was discovered lying dead in bed.

Chalmers was interred in the Grange Cemetery on 4th June, the very first burial in that cemetery.

Read more on Thomas Chalmers here https://www.historyofsocialwork.org/eng/details.php?cps=1

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Title/Name: Sir Isaac Newton, (1643–1727). Bio: English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. Country: England Wojak Series: Feels Guy (Variant), Twinkjak (Variant) Image by: Unknown Main Tag: Newton Wojak

[msclaritea]

After those amazing pictures of BC on the set of TTWF, today we got a picture of the beautiful Mr. and Mrs. Cumberbatch on their 9th wedding anniversary at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

I hope you're enjoying being proven as big a fraud as your seven knuckledragging Mistress.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there.

Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

Never forget: the most learned theologian knows exactly as much about god, about human existence and about death as the stupidest atheist.