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- Title
Daniel Ernst Jabionski und die Bischofsweihe Zinzendorfs.
- Authors
Rudolph, Hartmut
- Abstract
The author first elaborates Jablonski's understanding of the episcopate. He derives it in the first place from the view of the Bohemian Brethren, who hoped that the office of bishop would preserve the unity of their church, and uses quotations from Jablonski to set out the development of the ancient Unity's episcopate up to the time of Jablonski's father Peter Figulus. Jablonski gained a second understanding of the significance of the episcopate while studying in England under Bishop Fell, in the context of die high-church Anglicanism of the Restoration era in the reign of Charles II. At that time Fell published an edition of the works of Cyprian, in which he found the significance of the episcopate most clearly elaborated. Jablonski was convinced by this Anglican view and wrote to the English Ambassador in Hamburg that the episcopal form of church government in apostolic succession was 'the only robust order in keeping with the nature of the Church, whose introduction alone could bring to an end the prevailing chaos'. He now regarded the Anglican Church as 'the most powerful bulwark of the Gospel against popery'. In 1711 he viewed the episcopate as the 'link between the Western and the Eastern Church', which would 'avoid the appearance that, despite the distance from the Roman Church, we had separated ourselves from the ecclesia catholica'. Jablonski therefore agreed to Zinzendorf s request that he should ordain first Nitschmann and then Zinzendorf himself and thereby passed on to the Moravian Church a mark of ecclesial communion which he regarded as indispensable. 'Jablonski helped the Moravian Church to gain an understanding of the episcopate which was sharpened by the perspective of the early Church' and in doing so also made a contribution to ecumenism.
- Subjects
JABLONSKI, Daniel Ernst, 1660-1741; ZINZENDORF, Nicolaus Ludwig, Graf von, 1700-1760; BOHEMIAN Brethren; BISHOPS; EPISCOPACY
- Publication
Unitas Fratrum, 2016, Issue 73/74, p125
- ISSN
0344-9254
- Publication type
Article