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The German Lutheran Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack’s life spanned from May 7th 1851 to June 10th 1930. His lectures entitled What is Christianity were an inspiration to his generation, and yet were rejected by the succeeding generation of... more
Agreement about theosis in the Orthodox-Reformed dialogues played a strategic role in the ecumenical recovery of the patristic doctrine of deification and its emergence as a locus of Reformed theology. Ecumenical dialogue helped dispel... more
La théologie libérale en Allemagne. De quelques types que masque un chiffre théologique Jean-Marc Tétaz (Lausanne) I. À propos de l'histoire d'un chiffre théologique L'encyclopédie Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart est l'un des... more
John Henry Newman spearheaded one of the first modern retrievals of the Christian doctrine of the Christian doctrine of deification. This article argues that, precisely because of the early date of Newman’s rehabilitation, his treatment... more
Scholarship on early Christian martyrdom has long relied on a canon of narratives published in collections of texts. This article probes the shortcomings of this canon through the test case of the “apocryphal” martyr narratives of... more
The obscure 2nd century CE writer Ariston of Pella is mentioned in two accepted works: Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History and John of Scythopolis / Maximus Confessor's Notes on the Mystic Theology of the Areopagite. He is also mentioned in... more
Augustine′s conversion to Christianity in A.D. 386 is a pivotal moment not only in his own life, but in Christian and world history, for the theology of Augustine set the course of theological and cultural development in the western... more
Der Aufsatz geht von Adolf von Harnacks Unterschrift unter den "Aufruf an die Kulturwelt" vom. Oktober aus und beleuchtet seine Hal-tung zum Ersten Weltkrieg in den Jahren /////. Dabei deuten zwei bisher in ihrer Gesamtheit unpublizierte... more
, der große evangelische Kirchen-und Dogmenhistoriker und herausragende Repräsentant des sogenannten ,Kulturprotestantismus', in der wilhelminischen Ära wohl der einflußreichste und weltweit angesehenste deutsche Theologe, spielt in der... more
Introduzione di Mario Piantoni. Traduzione, con testo a fronte, di 5 testi di Adolf von Harnack, direttore della biblioteca reale (ora Staatsbibliothek) di Berlino. Seguono la traduzione di un testo del figlio Axel sul padre e due saggi... more
In questo lavoro si ricostruisce la genesi e lo sviluppo della teoria del Dio in divenire di Scheler, uno dei maggiori esempi di panenteismo del XX secolo, attraverso la ricostruzione dell'influsso dell'ultimo Schelling, di Dostoevskij,... more
Today there is a distinction, based on the work of several 19th century scholars, between what can be determined by the historical method and the dogmatic claims of the Church, described in shorthand as the Jesus of History and the Christ... more
La théologie libérale en Allemagne. De quelques types que masque un chiffre théologique Jean-Marc Tétaz (Lausanne) I. À propos de l'histoire d'un chiffre théologique L'encyclopédie Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart est l'un des... more
N 1902, ADOLF HARNACK^ (1851-1930) published his Die Mission und Aushreitung des Christentums in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten (in English: The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries). The book added to the... more
Der Kaiser und der "Evangelist des Rassismus" 79 Editionen / Source Documents Der Kaiser und der "Evangelist des Rassismus". Houston Stewart Chamberlains Brief an Anne Guthrie über seine erste Begegnung mit Wilhelm II. mit einer... more
In: Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie 131 (2009), 26-46; ungekürzte und aktualisierte Fassung Dezember 2020 "Da das Christentum die allein wahre Religion und keine nationale Religion ist, vielmehr der ganzen Menschheit resp. ihrem... more
The paper reconstructs the history of the Italian translation of Harnack's Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte, in the frame of the relationships between liberal Italian Protestantism and Modernism.
Author: Ruth Hoppin Publisher: CBE International My field of research is Adolf von Harnack’s hypothesis that Priscilla is the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews.1 I argue for the theory. There are two main objections to the Priscilla... more
This essay, like Gaul, is divided into three parts, but it begins with the same question Adolf von Harnack asked over a hundred years ago: What is Christianity? Like Harnack, we desire a historical answer. Christianity insistently directs... more
A strange quotation from Clement of Alexandria's now lost Hypotyposeis, preserved in the Areopagite material within the writings of Maximus Confessor/John of Scythopolis, claims that Luke the Evangelist wrote the Jewish-Christian dialogue... more
Es brennt wieder einmal an verschiedenen Ecken unseres Hauses. Vor allzu großer Aufregung darüber wird derjenige gesichert sein, welcher denselben Brand schon mehrmals hat ausbrechen sehen, um auch mehrmals zu erleben, wie er in sich... more
The State Library Berlin and the University Library Heidelberg hold a number of letters which Adolf von Harnack received from the Scottish classicist Sir William Mitchell Ramsay. The correspondence between these two outstanding scholars... more
The books of the Hebrew Bible did not emerge as authoritative texts. The literary history of the texts shows that they originally were composed as intentional literature. Its aim was to establish programmatic religious concepts, ethical... more
On sait qu'Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) a voué la plus grande partie de son actisa carrière-on l'oublie parfois-comme professeur d'hébreu et spécialiste de l'Ancien Testament, avant de la poursuivre, à partir de 1893 1 et avec une constance... more
Franz Overbeck hat sechs Rezensionen zu Werken Adolf Harnacks (ab 1888 Professor der Kirchengeschichte in Berlin) verfast,1 die hier abgedruckte ist die letzte (1883). In der ersten Rezension (1874) ist ein prazeptoraler Ton nicht zu... more
Die Themenstellung geht zurück auf zwei Vorträge des großen Kirchenhistorikers des Wilhelminismus und der Wei-marer Republik, Adolf von Harnack. Dieser hielt am 3. August 1901 in der Aula der Berliner Universität aus Anlaß des... more
Georges Florovsky is the mastermind of a 'return to the Church Fathers' in twentieth-century Orthodox theology. His theological vision-the neopatristic synthesis-became the main paradigm of Orthodox theology and the golden standard of... more