I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ’s absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.

Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661), Theologe

Topics: Faith & Trust, Suffering & the Question of God, Loneliness & Abandonment

Occasions: For Reflection

Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) war ein schottischer presbyterianischer Theologe, Pfarrer und Hochschullehrer, der das theologische Erbe der Covenanter und der Westminster-Synode maßgeblich mitprägte. Er wurde bekannt durch sein staatsphilosophisches Werk „Lex, Rex“, das die Unterordnung von Herrschern unter das Recht forderte, sowie durch seine geistlichen Trostbriefe, während er zugleich die religiöse Gewissensfreiheit strikt ablehnte. Für heutige Bibelleser verbindet sein Werk eine intensive Christusfrömmigkeit im Leiden mit den staats- und kirchenpolitischen Härten des 17. Jahrhunderts.

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