Timotheus Kirchner [SEP] date of death
Timotheus Kirchner
Timotheus Kirchner (6 January 1533 in Döllstädt – 14 September 1587 in Weimar) was a Lutheran theologian, pastor, Protestant reformer, professor of theology and superintendent in Weimar.
Life.
Kirchner was the son of a teacher. He attended school in Gotha, studied in Jena and Erfurt, and was the village priest at a young age.
References.
- Kolb, Robert "Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method" Eerdmans Publishing, 2005 pg. 125ff
the Flacian party, like Johann Hachenburg, Andreas Musculus, Jakob Rungius and Laurentius Petri. This belief was shared also by Nikolaus Selnecker, Martin Chemnitz and Timotheus Kirchner. A feast of victory of genuine Lutheranism over Philippism was celebrated in one of the German principalities with prayers for the preservation of the doctrine of justification and the doctrine of the adoration of the Sacrament. Paul Eber was one of the Philippistic main opponents of eucharistic adoration.
In Saxony.
Controversy about crypto-Calvinism inside of Lutheran Church divides into two stages