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* [[James Tanis|Tanis, James]]. ''Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies: A Study in the Life and Theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen.'' Reviewed in ''William and Mary Quarterly'', 3rd Series, Volume 26, Number 2 (April, 1969), 297-299. |
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Revision as of 03:20, 26 October 2006
Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1691 in Lingen, The Netherlands – c. 1747 in Franklin Township, New Jersey) was a Dutch-American theologian.
Biography
He was born in 1691 in Lingen, East Friesland, now a part of Germany, to Johannes Henrich Frelinghaus, a Minister. He married Eva Terhune (1708-?) of Flatbush, Long Island and had the following children: Theodorus Jacobus II (1724-1761), John (father of Frederick Frelinghuysen (1753–1804), Jacobus (c1730-1753), Ferdinandus (c1732-1753), Henricus (c1735-1757), Margaret, Anna (1738-1810). All five sons became ministers and both daughters married ministers. Theodore was the progenitor for the Frelinghuysen family in New Jersey.
Frelinghuysen graduated from the University of Lingen and was ordained as a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1715. For a short time he was a minister in Belgium. In January 1720, he and Jacobus Schuurman, a friend, emigrated to the Province of New Jersey, a British colonies in North America. Frelinghuysen served as minister to several of the Reformed Dutch Churches (congregations at Raritan, New Brunswick, Six-Mile Run, Three-Mile Run, and North Branch) in the Raritan River valley of New Jersey which he served until his death in 1747 or 1748.
The Encyclopedia of New Jersey states:
Loyal to the Heidelberg Catechism, he emphasized pietism, conversion, repentance, strict moral standards, private devotions, excommunication, and church discipline. An eloquent preacher who published numerous sermons, he struggled against indifferentism and empty formalism. His theories conflicted with the orthodox views of Henry Boel and others, who challenged Frelinghuysen's religious emotionalism and unauthorized practices. As one of the fearless missionaries of the first Great Awakening in America, Frelinghuysen stressed tangible religious experiences. He trained young men for the clergy, often ordaining them without permission. His evangelical fervor and autonomous actions helped to instill an element of local independence for Dutch churches in North America's middle colonies.
He died in 1747 or 1748 in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey and was buried at Elm Ridge Cemetery, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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- "You have lived twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years, some longer, and walked in the way that seems right in your eyes. But now you are nearer to eternity, and God is warning you not to proceed any further in your own ways."
References
- Tanis, James. Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies: A Study in the Life and Theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen. Reviewed in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, Volume 26, Number 2 (April, 1969), 297-299.
- Schrag F.J. "Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen: The Father of American Pietism" in Church History, Vol. 14, No. 3 (September, 1945), 201-216.
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