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Jakub Melissaeus Krtský
Jakub Melissaeus Krtský (also known as Jakub Meduna Krtský; 1554 – 20 October 1599) was an Utraquism, Utraquist Hussites, Hussite teacher and priest in Lands of the Bohemian Crown, Bohemia. Biography Jakub Melissaeus Krtský was born in 1554 in Krty-Hradec, Krty. He was the brother of Václav Melissaeus Krtský (1540–1578) and uncle of Václav Melissaeus Lounský ( 1573–1631). He went to school in Louny and studied at Prague's Charles University in 1566. In the fall of 1578, he worked at a school in Jindřichův Hradec. In the first half of the 1580s, he was administrator of the school Pelhřimov. He then switched to the clerical path and was ordained to priesthood in Zerbst, in today's Saxony-Anhalt – a centre of Calvinism following the Reformation. He served as pastor at the Parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Prostějov, Parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Prostějov during the church's non-Catholic period (1522–1622, which also earned him the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verbi Dei Minister
(Minister of the Word of God), also (Minister of the Divine Word), is a Latin religious title abbreviated V.D.M., denoting a minister or pastor within some Lutheran and Reformed churches. The expression dates from the Helvetic Confessions, Second Helvetic Confessions of 1562, where the Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger formulated a credo that came to spread throughout German speaking countries. In the 2017 reader on the Reformation Jubilee, the Evangelical Church in Germany suggests that the reform theology of Martin Luther is not complete until Luther states that God's forgiveness and Justification (theology), justification works through the Word of God, thus making the pastor a verbi divini minister. Modern usage In the Church of Sweden, Verbi divini minister is a formal designation of the ordained ministry, and is mentioned as the primary expression of his or her ministry. In the Calvinistic tradition, the academic study of theology as a means of furthering the preaching m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |