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Richard Adelbert Lipsius (14 February 1830 in
Richard Adelbert Lipsius (14 February 1830 in Gera
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, Thuringia
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– 19 August 1892 in Jena
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, Thuringia) was a German Protestant theologian
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.
Biography
Richard Adelbert Lipsius was the son of K. H. A. Lipsius (d. 1861), who was rector of the school of St. Thomas atLeipzig
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, was born at Gera
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on 14 February 1830. He studied at Leipzig, and eventually (1871) settled at Jena
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as professor ordinaries. He helped to found the "Evangelical Protestant Missionary Union" and the "Evangelical Alliance
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", and from 1874 took an active part in their management. He died at Jena on 19 August 1892.
Works
Lipsius wrote principally on dogmatics and the history of early Christianity from a liberal and critical standpoint. ANeo-Kantian
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, he was to some extent an opponent of Albrecht Ritschl
Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl (25 March 182220 March 1889) was a German Protestant theologian.
Starting in 1852, Ritschl lectured on systematic theology. According to this system, faith was understood to be irreducible to other experiences, beyond ...
, demanding
This, in part, is Lipsius's attitude in ''Philosophie und Religion'' (1885). In his ''Lehrbuch der evangelisch-protestantischen Dogmatik'' (1876; 3rd ed., 1893) he deals in detail with the doctrines of "God", "Christ", "Justification" and the "Church".
Herausgeber:
From 1875 Lipsius assisted Karl August von Hase (1800-1890), Otto Pfleiderer (1839-1908) and Eberhard Schrader
Eberhard Schrader (7 January 1836 – 4 July 1908) was a German orientalist primarily known for his achievements in Assyriology.
Biography
He was born at Braunschweig, and educated at Göttingen under Ewald. In 1858 he won a university prize f ...
(1836-1908) in editing ''Jahrbücher für protestantische Theologie'', and from 1885 until 1891 he edited the ''Theologische Jahresbericht.''
His other works include:
*''Die Pilatusakten'' (1871, new ed., 1886)
*''Dogmatische Beiträge'' (1878)
*''Die Quellen der ältesten Ketzergeschichte'' (1875)
* ''Zur Quellenkritik des Epiphanios.'' Wien, Braumueller, (1865)
*''Die apokryphen Apostelgeschichten'' (1883-1890)
*''Hauptpunkte der christl. Glaubenslehre im Umriss dargestellt'' (1889)
* and commentaries on the Epistles to the Galatians, Romans and Philippians in H.J. Holtzmann's ''Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament'' (1891-1892)
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