Colloquent

Upon that account it was, that the ſix Colloquents, or perſons that were appointed to ſpeak and plead for them the ſaid Remonſtrants, at the Conference of the Hague, preſented a Memorial to the States of Holland, on the 26th of January, containing a ſhort account of the riſe of the eccleſiaſtical troubles of this country; in which they moſt humbly prayed: […]

The colloquents chosen on the part of the Buffalo Synod were the pastors H. K. G. von Rohr, Chr. Hochstetter, and P. Brand, and the lay delegates E. Schorr from Buffalo, H. A. Christiansen from Detroit, Mich., and Chr. Krull from Bergholz near Buffalo. […] The colloquents appointed did not, it is true, succeed in effecting a perfect unity. Rev. Von Rohr clung to some doctrinal differences to the last. All the remaining colloquents, however, were enabled, upon the basis of full agreement in the truth, to give each other the hand of brotherhood. The following declaration was given by the pastors C. Hochstetter and P. Brand, and the three lay deputies of the Buffalo Synod, the Messrs. Krull, Schorr, and Christiansen, and recorded in the minutes: “Finally they declare: In view of the fact that they agree with the registered declarations of the Missourian colloquents, and that the latter in turn have declared themselves agreed with the declarations of the undersigned, that the doctrinal harmony between the Missouri Synod and ourselves is now completely restored.”

Because the omission of all historical data in working out the theses was evidently not conducive to a full understanding on the part of the colloquents.

It has quite properly been called a “folk oratorio”; the scene is laid amid rural surroundings, and the narrators (the “testo,” as previously explained) are a pair of rural lovers, who are not deprived of their love-making or of the idealized popular language which they share with the third colloquent (Simon) and the other rural characters.

The Church Council of the Synod recommended to the 1902 convention that the Synod should not continue these committee discussions, if Dr. Schmidt were retained as a colloquent. […] On the last named date, telegraphic reports were released to the effect that the colloquents had come to a full agreement on the doctrine of Election.

Campius, whose proper name was Wulff, was first a monk, shortly after 1526 a Lutheran preacher at Itzehoe, North Germany, and in 1529 a colloquent at the dispute at Flensburg on the side of Melchior Hofmann.

‘[…] [Formalisation] leads to a specially stylised form of communication: polite, respectful, holy, but from the point of view of the creativity potential of language, impoverished.’ Through formalisation the response of a colloquent can be restricted or coerced.

De Buyser explicitly instructs his readers that the younger colloquent represents a pilgrim (p. 788): “so is mijnen naem Pelgrim … ende mijne reyse, wandelinghe ofte Pilgrimagie is, voorgenomen naer onse Hooft-Stadt Ierusalem” (therefore my name is Pilgrim … and my journey, wandering or pilgrimage is intended to our capital Jerusalem).