Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

— Thomas Watson (1620–1686), Puritanischer Prediger

Topics: Suffering & the Question of God, Hope & Confidence

Thomas Watson

Thomas Watson war ein englischer puritanischer Geistlicher des 17. Jahrhunderts, der in London wirkte und nach dem Erlass der Uniformitätsakte von 1662 als Nonkonformist predigte. Er steht für eine praxisorientierte reformierte Theologie, die er in bildhafter Sprache und pastoralen Schriften zu Themen wie Buße und Katechismuslehre entfaltete. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet sein Werk pointierte, alltagsnahe Auslegungen zur christlichen Lebensführung und zum Trost in Anfechtungen.

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