Also known as:
French: Jean de Labadie;
Latin: Johannes Labadie
LABADIE, JEAN. - Quietist and Pietist, b. at Bourg (Bordeaux) on 13 Feb. 1610, d. at Altona on 13 Feb. 1674. After completing his studies at the Jesuit College in Bordeaux, he entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained a priest in 1635. Because of an illness contracted through excessive penances, he was able to leave the Society in 1639; he was at Abbeville, Bazas, Toulouse. It was in his life as a wandering man that he was initiated into the theory and practice of mystical-Quietist devotion of the Molinist stamp; in Nov. 1649 he was at La Graville; in Oct. 1650, at Montauban, he became a Protestant; in 1659, at Geneva, he founded a small group of his devotees; at Middelburg, in 1666, he gathered other disciples, among them Antoinette Bourignon. The Synod of Naarden demanded a retraction from him: because of his refusal he was exiled; he died at Altona. His disciples, called Labadists, survived until the first half of the 18th century, not without having founded conventicles also outside Europe, from Maryland to Surinam.
L.'s work is fundamental for the study of the transition from Quietism to Pietism: in his opposition to the Sacraments and to religious practices, L. starts from the sufficiency of mental prayer (as had been affirmed by Quietism), in order to arrive at the wholly Pietist affirmation of religious confessionslessness, precisely because religion is an exclusively matter of the heart.
Bibliography11 worksA. Ritschl, Geschichte des Pietismus, I, Bonn 1880, p. 194 ff.; B. J. Bartlett, The labadist colony in Maryland, Baltimore 1899; A. R. Macen
BIBL.: A. Ritschl, Geschichte des Pietismus, I, Bonn 1880, p. 194 ff.; B. J. Bartlett, The labadist colony in Maryland, Baltimore 1899; A. R. Macen, Antonietta Bourignon, London 1910, passim; W. Götters, Die Vorbereitung des Pietismus in der reformierten Kirche der Niederlande bis zur labadistischen Kristi 1910, Leipzig 1911; L. Marchal, s.v. in DThC, VIII, coll. 2383-2386; M. Wieser, Der sentimentale Mensch, gesehen aus der Welt holländischer und deutscher Mystik im XVIII. Jahrhundert, Gotha 1924, passim; R. D. Schmidt, L. und Spener, offprint from Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, 36 (1927); J. Lindelboom, Stiefkinderen van het Christendom, The Hague 1920, pp. 365-78; F. Oudschans Denz, Cornelis van Aersen van Sommetsdijk, Amsterdam 1938, p. 139 ff.; C. W. Roldanus, Zeventiende-eenwische geestesbeze, ibid. 1938 (see indexes); L. J. Rogier, Geschiedenis van het Katholische in Noord-Nederland in de 16e en de 17e eeuw, II, ibid. 1946, pp. 502-504, 737-38, 762.
Petrocchi, Massimo. “Labadie, jean.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 769. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/labadie-jean.
MLA
Petrocchi, Massimo. “Labadie, jean.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 769. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/labadie-jean.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_labadie_jean,
author = {Petrocchi, Massimo},
title = {Labadie, jean},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {769},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/labadie-jean}
}
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