An unthankful and complaining spirit is an abiding sin against God, and a cause of almost continual unhappiness; and yet how common such a spirit is. How prone we seem to be to forget the good that life knows, and remember and brood over its evil – to forget its joys, and think only of its sorrows – to forget thankfulness, and remember only to complain.

— John Broadus (1827–1895), Baptistischer Theologe

John Broadus

John Albert Broadus (1827–1895) war ein US-amerikanischer baptistischer Theologe, Pastor und Mitgründer des Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville und Louisville. Er prägte mit seinem Standardwerk über die Predigtlehre und seinen Bibelkommentaren die evangelikale Homiletik maßgeblich, während seine Haltung als Sklavenhalter und Konföderierten-Feldprediger heute kritisch aufgearbeitet wird. Für Bibelleser vermitteln seine Schriften bis heute methodische Klarheit und theologische Sorgfalt in der Schriftauslegung.

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