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Article: The legacy of John Amos Comenius.(Biography)
- Article from:
- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
- Author:
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John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky), born in 1592 at Uhersky Brod in eastern Moravia in the Kingdom of Bohemia, was the youngest of five children born to Anna and Martin Komensky, people of modest means and members of the Unity of the Brethren. (1) Bohemia was Comenius's homeland; the Unity of the Brethren was his mother. From Bohemia, Comenius received a deep sense of national consciousness and pride. From the Unity of the Brethren, Comenius inherited an unshakable faith in Jesus Christ, a belief in the radical separation between faith and society, and a tradition of strict discipline.
From within this milieu of homeland and faith, John Comenius envisioned a ...