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Leonhard Ragaz (28 July 1868, in Tamins6 December 1945, in Zurich) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and, with Hermann Kutter, one of the founders of Religious socialism in Switzerland. He was influenced by Christoph Blumhardt. He was married to feminist and peace activist Clara Ragaz-Nadig. ==Biography == Born to a farmer family in Tamins, Grisons, Ragaz studied theology in Basel, Jena and Berlin. In 1890, he was elected as minister in Flerden, Heinzenberg. In 1893, he moved to Chur, working as a teacher of language and religion, and from 1895 to 1902 as municipal minister. In 1902, Ragaz was elected as minister at the Basel Münster. In Basel, Ragaz came into contact with the Labour movement. As construction workers went on strike in 1903, Ragaz delivered a sermon in the Münster which came to be known as the "bricklayers' strike sermon" (''Maurerstreikpredigt''), in which he said that "if institutional Christendom were to be cold and incomprehending towards the becoming of a new world, which after all emerged from the heart of the gospel, then the salt of the earth would have become putrid".〔"Wenn das offizielle Christentum kalt und verständnislos dem Werden einer neuen Welt zuschauen wollte, die doch aus dem Herzen des Evangeliums hervorgegangen ist, dann wäre das Salz der Erde faul geworden!“〕 In 1908, Ragaz was called to a professorship at the theological faculty of Zürich University. During the Swiss General Strike of 1918, he took sides with the workers, and as the authorities sent troops to protect the university buildings from the strikers, he protested. In 1921, he resigned as professor, stating that he could not continue to educate ministers for the ''bourgeois'' Swiss Reformed Church. He and his family moved to the proletarian Aussersihl district of Zürich. He remained involved with the labour movement, editing his journal ''Neue Wege'', until his death in 1945. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leonhard Ragaz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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