A man who does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. And a man that does not know how to be shaken to his heart’s core with indignation over things evil is either a fungus or a wicked man.

— Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), Prediger

Topics: Justice & Commitment, Ethical Questions

Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher war ein US-amerikanischer kongregationalistischer Prediger, der im 19. Jahrhundert vier Jahrzehnte lang die Plymouth Church in Brooklyn leitete. Er erlangte Bekanntheit als einflussreicher Redner gegen die Sklaverei und vertrat eine liberale Theologie, die die Liebe Gottes und gesellschaftliche Reformen ins Zentrum rückte. Für Bibelleser steht er für die Verbindung von Glaube und sozialem Engagement, dessen Lebenswerk jedoch durch theologische Kontroversen und einen aufsehenerregenden Ehebruchsskandal in den 1870er-Jahren belastet wurde.

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