No student of theology, he believed, should be spared a profound crisis. His writings, noted for their indepth historical research. The outlines of harnack s landmark monograph on marcion are well known from summaries and discussions of it as well as through the german original. Important terms link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wealth of other resources in your digital library. Liberal theology in germany on the eve of the great war. In this work, harnack traced the origin and development of christian dogma, which he understood to be the authoritative system of christian doctrine that had formed by the 4th century ad. Pdf adolf harnack and the paleontological layer of church.
According to our current online database, gustav harnack has 2 students and 1203 descendants. Marcionss radical rejection of the creator god had its philosophical basis in platonism, which thought of matter as evil and of salvation as the separation of the soul from it. But if you re on wp, you already know that, i mean thetoapp thingy. The acts of the apostles, adolf harnack, nov 2, 2000, religion, 348. He was concerned about the exclusion of some early documents as well as the risks involved with. In one sense, of course, this engagement was an academic enterprise of the. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Hausschild 2000 was born in dorpat today tartu in estonia, the son of the theology professor theodosius harnack. This document has been generated from xsl extensible. This pdf file is from the christian classics ethereal library. The history of dogma, is a monument of liberal christian historiography.
From the death of theodor mommsen in 1903 until his ovn passing in 1930. To submit students of this mathematician, please use the new data form, noting this mathematicians mgp id of 67327 for the advisor id. Scripture citations appear on mouseover in your preferred english translation. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912 in which he is sometimes credited as adolf harnack.
If you have additional information or corrections regarding this mathematician, please use the update form. His family belonged to the german minority in estonia. He was born in 1851 in the town of dorpat in livonia, a province of russia today, tartu in estonia. By rowan williams, theologian and former archbishop of.
In such seminal works as the history of dogma 188689 and the history of ancient christian literature 18931904, harnack sought to demonstrate that the relevance of christianity to a modern world lay not in theological. Adolf harnack was a german theologian, scholar and historian. Adolf harnack viewed the formation of the christian canon as a mixed blessing. This article deals with one of the most important skirmishes in the modern debate over authority in christian theology. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Publication date 1957 topics christianity publisher new york, harper.
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