Church History, Volume 3 (of 3)Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
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Church History, Volume 3 (of 3)
Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
Church history
§ 182.10. Among those belonging originally to the =Lutheran
church= were Schleiermacher’s successor in Berlin, =Twesten=,
whose dogmatic treatise did not extend beyond the doctrine of
God, a faithful adherent of Schleiermacher’s right wing on the
Lutheran side; =Nitzsch=, professor in Bonn A.D. 1822-1847, and
afterwards of Berlin till his death in A.D. 1868, best known by
his “System of Christian Doctrine,” and his Protestant reply to
Möhler’s “Symbolism,” a profound thinker with a noble Christian
personality, and one of the most influential among the consensus
theologians. =Julius Müller= of Halle, A.D. 1801-1878, if we
except his theory of an ante-temporal fall, occupied the common
doctrinal platform of the confessional unionists. His chief work,
“The Christian Doctrine of Sin,” is a masterpiece of profound
thinking and original research. =Ullmann=, A.D. 1796-1865,
professor in Halle and Heidelberg, a noble and peace-loving
character, distinguished himself in the domain of history by his
monograph on “Gregory Nazianzen,” his “Reformers before the
Reformation,” and most of all by his beautiful apologetical
treatise on the “Sinlessness of Jesus.”--=Isaac Aug. Dorner=,
A.D. 1809-1884, born and educated in Württemberg, latterly
professor in Berlin, applied himself mainly to the elaborating
of Christian doctrine, and gave to the world, in his “Doctrine of
the Person of Christ,” in A.D. 1839, a work of careful historical
research and theological speculation. The fundamental ideas of
his Christology are the theory favoured by the “German” theology
generally of the necessity of the incarnation even apart from sin
(which Müller strongly opposed), and the notion of the archetypal
Christ, the God-Man, as the collective sum of humanity, in whom
“are gathered the patterns of all several individualities.” His
“System of Christian Doctrine” formed the copestone of an almost
fifty years’ academical career. Christ’s virgin birth is admitted
as the condition of the essential union in Him of divinity and
humanity; but the incarnation of the Logos extends through the
whole earthly life of the Redeemer; it is first completed in
his exaltation by means of his resurrection; it was therefore
an operation of the Logos, as principle of all divine movement,
_extra carnem_. His “System of Christian Ethics” was edited
after his death by his son.[535]--=Richard Rothe=, A.D. 1799-1867,
appointed in A.D. 1823 chaplain to the Prussian embassy at Rome,
where he became intimately acquainted with Bunsen. In A.D. 1828
he was made ephorus at the preachers’ seminary of Wittenberg,
and afterwards professor in Bonn and Heidelberg. Rothe was one
of the most profound thinkers of the century, equalled by none
of his contemporaries in the grasp, depth, and originality of
his speculation. Though influenced by Schleiermacher, Neander,
and Hegel, he for a long time withdrew like an anchoret from the
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