Johannes andreas quenstedt biography

Johannes Andreas Quenstedt (13 August 1617 – 22 May 1688) was a German Lutheran dogmatician in the Lutheran scholastic tradition.
Johannes Quenstedt is probably the most influential leader and theologian of the post-Reformation Lutheran church.
Lutheran theologian and dogmatician; b.

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Johannes Andreas Quenstedt 1528–1590

Biography by Caleb Bassett

Many historians agree that after Martin Chemnitz and Johann Gerhard, Johannes Quenstedt is probably the most influential leader and theologian of the post-Reformation Lutheran church. He was a quintessential member of the period of Lutheran orthodoxy. We profit still today because of his work in the church.

Quenstedt was born in Quedlinburg, Germany (now in modern Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt) on August 13, 1617. It is interesting to note that his mother was the sister of Johann Gerhard. Thus, Quenstedt was the nephew of the great theologian Johann Gerhard.

Throughout Quenstedt’s school days, he was hoping to study theology under his uncle at the university at Jena. Unfortunately, Gerhard died before Quenstedt could matriculate at the university. As a result, Quenstedt’s mother sent him to the university at Helmstedt. Many people had misgivings about the doctrinal stance of the school, but Quenstedt’s mother desired her son to attend school relatively close to home. The university was approx

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Quenstedt, Johann Andreas

Lutheran theologian and dogmatician; b. Quedlinburg, Aug. 13, 1617; d. Wittenberg, May 22, 1688. He was educated at the University of Helmstädt (1637–43), where he came under the influence of Georg Calixtus, whose heterodox ideas he later refuted. From 1644 to the time of his death, Quenstedt held various academic positions at the University of Wittenberg. He published the results of his years of teaching in Theologia didacticopolemica sive systema theologicum (Wittenberg 1685; Leipzig 1715). This represents a type of reaction to the reconstruction of dogma that had been begun by Veit Ludwig von Seckendorf (1626–92) and that was symptomatic of the intellectual revolution taking place throughout Europe. On every subject discussed there is first the presentation of theses, followed by their exposition and proof, and then the discussion of various difficulties and questions that are suggested. Because of this style the work became so thoroughly a systematized treatise on Lutheran theology that Quenstedt has been frequently called "the

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+ Johannes Quenstedt, Theologian +22 May AD 1688

After Martin Chemnitzand Johann Gerhard, Johannes Andreas Quenstedt may have been the ablest theologian of the Lutheran church in the period following the death of Martin Luther. A shining light during the period of Lutheran orthodoxy, Quenstedt still offers much to the Church of our day.

Born on 13 August 1617 in Quedlinburg, Germany (modern Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt), Quenstedt was nephew to Johann Gerhard. His mother was the noted theologian's sister.

During his early school days, Quenstedt hoped to study under his uncle at the university at Jena. Unfortunately for young Johannes, Gerhard died before he could enroll at the university. Because of this, Quenstedt's mother changed plans and sent her son to Helmstedt. Many Lutherans had doubts about the overall orthodoxy of Helmstedt. However, its fifty mile distance from Quedlinburg allowed his mother to keep him closer to