Christian Scriver

Here he remained twenty-three years, until in 1690 he was made chief court chaplain at Quedlinburg, a position which he held until his death.

[2][3] The friend of Philipp Jakob Spener, Scriver was one of those theologians of the latter part of the seventeenth century who opposed the formalism then besetting Lutheranism, and thus prepared the way for Pietism, even while himself maintaining strict orthodoxy.

transl., (Gotthold's Emblems: or, Invisible Things understood by Things that are made), by R. Menzies, Edinburgh, 1857), a collection of 400 parables; Gotthold's Siech- und Siegesbette (1687; new ed., Stuttgart, 1870); and Chrysologia Catechetica, Goldpredigten über die Hauptstücke des lutherischen Katechismus (1687; new ed., Stuttgart, 1861).

A number of his compositions have been translated into English including Auf, Seel, und danke deinem Herrn ("To God, my soul, thank-offerings pay") and Hier lieg ich nun, mein Gott, zu deinen Füssen ("Here, O my God, I cast me at Thy feet").

His most well-known hymn Den lieben Sonne Licht und Pracht ("Love the sun light and splendor") is found in a number of renderings.