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He was born around 1691 in Lingen, East Friesland, to Johann Henrich Frelinghaus, a German-Reformed minister; and to Anna Margaretha Brüggemann Frelinghaus (1657–1728).
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- Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies: A Study in the Life and Theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (The word "pietism" usually conjures up a host o...)
- Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies: A Study in the Life and Theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen by Tanis James Robert (1967-01-01) Paperback
- Sermons by Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, 1691 - 1747
- Dutch Calvinistic pietism in the middle colonies. A study in the life and theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen
Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen
Edit ProfileEducation
His father and a minister friend gave him a thorough classical education. Frelinghuysen was graduated from the University of Lingen in 1717.
Career
Frelinghuysen was licensed in 1717 by the Classis of Emden and the next year became a chaplain and then subrector in Friesland. Having learned that four Dutch frontier congregations in New Jersey desired a pastor, Frelinghuysen left for America in 1719.
In a guest sermon in New York (1720) he immediately offended influential clerics by deviating from established rubric and by advocating revivalism.
In his scattered settlements Frelinghuysen taught and preached passionately that religious performance without true conversion was an abomination. His zeal appealed to the young and the poor, but many parishoners resented criticism of their behavior and Frelinghuysen's stringent requirements for taking Communion.
They allied themselves with New York clergymen who proclaimed baptismal regeneration instead. A long, bitter dispute produced publication of a lengthy Klagte (Complaint), signed by 64 family heads in the parishes. Some clerics, however, sided with Frelinghuysen, who defended himself ably in sermons published in several pamphlets. Gradually Frelinghuysen's influence grew; he was increasingly invited to preach to other New Jersey congregations.
Eloquent and vigorous, Frelinghuysen stimulated community intellectual life and trained several ministers. His presentation of the Gospel had a reforming effect, and significant revivals followed.
The movement spread to other denominations, and Frelinghuysen (with the aid of Gilbert Tennent and later George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards) led in generating the series of revivals called the Great Awakening.
Innovative and individualistic, Frelinghuysen worked to free the New World Dutch Church from the Classis of Amsterdam and urged greater authority for an American clerical tribunal than that granted by the Church in Holland.
He also introduced private prayer meetings and lay preaching and advocated founding a college and theological seminary.
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Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies: A Study in the Life and Theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen
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- Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies: A Study in the Life and Theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen by Tanis James Robert (1967-01-01) Paperback
- Sermons by Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, 1691 - 1747
- Dutch Calvinistic pietism in the middle colonies. A study in the life and theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen
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Sermons. Translated from the Dutch
Religion
Frelinghuysen served as a precursor to the First Great Awakening where his evangelistic contributions culminated in a regional awakening within the Middle Colonies. His ministry was greatly assisted through the efforts of Gilbert Tennent and George Whitefield. He sought to evangelize the Raritan Valley through Reformed pietism, that also owed much to the theological thought of the Puritans as well. Utilizing this theological thought, he employed a three-pronged evangelistic strategy. His chosen evangelistic strategies were preaching, church discipline, and a contextualization of the Dutch Reformed ecclesiastical practices.
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Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, a Dutch Reformed clergyman, was a noted exhorter and revivalist who initiated the Great Awakening in America's Middle colonies.
Views
His preaching aimed to convince people of the need to examine their lives in order to ascertain the validity of their salvation. In contrast to the staid orthodoxy of many of the Presbyterians and much of the New York Dutch Reformed Clergy, Frelinghuysen's evangelistic preaching penetrated the raw frontier of early eighteenth-century life of New Jersey. He attempted to ingrain within the listener a deep conviction of sin.
Frelinghuysen evangelized the New Jersey Colony by using a blunt preaching style which classified his audiences into two basic categories: regenerate and unregenerate.
Quotations: In 1733, he published several of his sermons with a preface containing his Latin motto "Laudem non quaero, culpam non timeo", translated as "I seek not praise, of blame I am not afraid. "
Connections
Frelinghuysen married Eva Terhune, a farmer's daughter; the couple had five sons and two daughters: Reverend Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen II (1723-c. 1760), Reverend Johannes Frelinghuysen (1727-1754), who married Dina Van Bergh and who was the father of Frederick Frelinghuysen (1753–1804), Reverend Jacobus Frelinghuysen (c. 1730–1753), Reverend Ferdinandus Frelinghuysen (c. 1732–1753), Reverend Henricus Frelinghuysen (c. 1735–1757), Margaret Frelinghuysen (1737–1757) who married Reverend Thomas F. Romeyn (1729–1794), Anna Frelinghuysen (1738–1810) who married Reverend William Jackson in 1757.
All five sons became ministers and both daughters married ministers.
- Father:
- Johann Henrich Frelinghausen
- Mother:
- Anna Margaretha Brüggemann Frelinghaus
- Wife:
- Eva Terhune
- Daughter:
- Anna Frelinghuysen
- Daughter:
- Margaret Frelinghuysen
- Son:
- Henricus Frelinghuysen
- Son:
- Johannes Frelinghuysen
- Son:
- Jacobus Frelinghuysen
- Son:
- Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen II
- Son:
- Ferdinandus Frelinghuysen
German-Reformed minister
References
- Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies: A Study in the Life and Theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen
- Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen
- Forerunner of the Great Awakening: Sermons by Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1691-1747) (Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America)
- Boel's Complaint against Frelinghuisen
- Theodorus Frelinghuysen's Evangelism: Catalyst to the First Great Awakening
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