Albrecht ritschl biography

Albrecht Ritschl (born March 25, 1822, Berlin—died March 20, 1889, Göttingen, Germany) was a German Lutheran theologian who showed both the religious and ethical relevance of the Christian faith by synthesizing the teaching of the Scriptures and the Protestant Reformation with some aspects of modern knowledge.
Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl (25 March 1822 – 20 March 1889) was a German Protestant theologian.
A German Protestant theologian Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl was born on March 25, 1822, in Berlin as a son of a famous Lutheran preacher of Pomerania.

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Ritschl, Albrecht

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Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889) (YunJung Moon, 1998)

Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1899): A Summary of his Introduction to A Critical History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation (Karen-Louise Rucks, 2002)

Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889)

YunJung Moon, 1998

His Life and Works

A German Protestant theologian Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl was born on March 25, 1822, in Berlin as a son of a famous Lutheran preacher of Pomerania. He had a intellectually, culturally, and ecclesiastically prestigious family background. His grandfather George Wilhelm was pastor and professor of Gymnasium in Erfurt where Martin Luther spent his college days, his father George Carl Benjamin was also pastor who had a doctorate in theology, and his mother Auguste Sebald, the second wife of his father, was the daughter of the Commissioner of Justice in Berlin and had a deep affection in music. Hence young Ritschl was blessed with the musical life in the family as well as he distinguished himself in his studies.

He started his theological education in 18

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Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl

The German theologian Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl (1822-1889) was an influential interpreter of the New Testament whose views were, for a time, an effective counterweight to the dominant romantic tendency of 19th-century German theology.

Albrecht Ritschl was born in Berlin on March 25, 1822, the son of a bishop and superintendent of the Evangelical Church in Pomerania. He studied philosophy and theology at Tübingen and other universities. His teaching career began at Bonn, where he was first lecturer (1846) and then professor (1852) of New Testament studies and patristics. In 1864 he accepted a call to Göttingen, where he remained as professor of theology until his death.

Early in his career, under the influence of Ferdinand Christian Baur, Ritschl subscribed to the speculative interpretation of the early Church introduced by G. W. F. Hegel and F. D. E. Schleiermacher. But he soon abandoned this in favor of an approach based solely on historical and theological interpretation of Scripture: no important Christian truth depends on metaphysical argumen

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Albrecht Ritschl

German protestant theologian

German-born Albrecht Ritschl attended Bonn University and Halle University. In 1843, Ritschl earned a doctorate. Shortly after that, he began teaching at the University of Bonn and finished his career lecturing at Göttingen. He also wrote about theological topics such as original sin, the Trinity, and the Incarnation. Ritschl wrote a definitive work on the roots of the Christian church entitled The Origin of the Old Catholic Church. However, his most renowned work is his three-volume Die Christliche Lehre von der Rechtfertigung und Versöhnung (The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation), published in 1870, which documents his studies, views, and theology. Ritschl died in March of 1889 at the age of 66.

Wailand Groenendyk
CCEL Staff Writer

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