[P]ersons are generally very liberal of their invectives against the clergy, and think they justly blame the conduct of’ that minister who does not take heed to and watch over the flock, of which the Holy Ghost has made him overseer: but may not every governor of a family, be in a lower degree liable to the same censure, who takes no thought for those souls that are committed to his charge? For every house is as it were a little parish, every governor a priest, every family a flock; and if any of them perish through the governor’s neglect, their blood will God require at their hands.
— George Whitefield (1714–1770), Erweckungsprediger
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George Whitefield
George Whitefield war ein englischer anglikanischer Geistlicher des 18. Jahrhunderts und eine prägende Leitfigur der frühen evangelikalen Erweckungsbewegung in Großbritannien und Nordamerika. Er wurde durch seine rhetorisch kraftvollen Freiluftpredigten bekannt, in denen er mit calvinistischer Prägung die Notwendigkeit der persönlichen Wiedergeburt betonte. Während seine Texte bis heute für missionarischen Eifer stehen, bleibt sein Wirken durch seinen eigenen Sklavenbesitz und seinen Einsatz für die Legalisierung der Sklaverei in Georgia historisch belastet.
All quotes by George Whitefield (38)
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