Johann Joachim Spalding - Wikipedia Johann Joachim Spalding From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Johann Joachim Spalding (1714-1804) Johann Joachim Spalding (1 November 1714 – 25 May 1804) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of Scottish ancestry who was a native of Tribsees, Swedish Pomerania. He was the father of Georg Ludwig Spalding (1762–1811), a professor at Grauen Kloster in Berlin. He grew up as a son of the parish priest in Tribsees and studied himself philosophy and theology at the Universities of Rostock and Greifswald, afterwards working as an auxiliary preacher in his hometown of Tribsees. In 1755 he became a pastor in Lassan, then two years later served as a minister in the town of Barth. In 1764 he received the titles of provost and Oberkonsistorialrat, and gained recognition for his sermons at St. Nicolai-Kirche and at Marienkirche in Berlin. He was a highly influential minister who had as friends, renowned personalities that included Ewald Christian von Kleist and Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim. As a protest against the Wöllnersche Religionsedikt (Wöllner Edict of 9 July 1788), he resigned from his official duties. Spalding was an important figure of the German Enlightenment. In 1748 he released Betrachtungen über die Bestimmung des Menschen (Reflections on the Destination of Man), a publication that is considered to be a manifesto of German Enlightenment theology. In this work he rejected dogmatic authoritarianism and confessional orthodoxy, while promoting a common sense philosophy that explained an individual's path from sensuality to spirituality ultimately leading to immortality. In his writings he was strongly opposed to Julien Offroy de La Mettrie's philosophy of French materialism. His autobiography, Lebensbeschreibung, von ihm selbst aufgesetzt, was published by his son in 1804. Other noted works by Spalding include: Über die Nutzbarkeit des Predigtamtes und deren Beförderung, 1772. Gedanken über den Werth der Gefühle in dem Christenthum, 1789 – Thoughts concerning the value of feelings in Christianity. Vertraute Briefe, die Religion betreffend : (1784; 1785; 1788) – Familiar writings involving religion. Religion, eine Angelegenheit des Menschen, 1798 – Religion, A matter for mankind.[1] References[edit] "This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia", whose references include: ADB: Spalding, Johann Joachim @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. ^ WorldCat Search published works Authority control BIBSYS: 2006596 BNE: XX1756504 BNF: cb137737973 (data) GND: 118751719 ISNI: 0000 0001 2136 6974 LCCN: no99020093 NKC: mzk2004250937 NLI: 000536966 NLP: A31063433 NTA: 071302336 PLWABN: 9810611900205606 SELIBR: 289022 SUDOC: 066902142 VIAF: 64189277 WorldCat Identities: lccn-no99020093 This article about a German theologian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann_Joachim_Spalding&oldid=869060056" Categories: 1714 births 1804 deaths People from Tribsees People from Swedish Pomerania German Protestant clergy German philosophers German male non-fiction writers German theologian stubs Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers All stub articles Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages العربية Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano مصرى Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 16 November 2018, at 04:05 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement