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ARNOLD, GOTTFRIED (1666-1714)

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ARNOLD, GOTTFRIED (1666-1714) , See also:German See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Annaberg, in See also:Saxony, where his See also:father was a schoolmaster. In 1682 he went to the Gymnasium at See also:Gera, and three years later to the university of See also:Wittenberg. Here he made a See also:special study of See also:theology and See also:history, and afterwards, through the See also:influence of P. J. Spener, " the father of See also:pietism," he became See also:tutor in Quedlinburg. His first See also:work, See also:Die Erste Liebe zu.Christo, to which in See also:modern times See also:attention was again directed by See also:Leo See also:Tolstoy, appeared in 1696. It went through five See also:editions before 1728, and gained the author much reputation. In the See also:year after its publication he was invited to See also:Giessen as See also:professor of See also:church history. The See also:life and work here, however, proved so distasteful to him that he resigned in 1698, and returned to Quedlinburg. In 1699 he began to publish his largest work, described by Tolstoy (The See also:Kingdom of See also:God is within You, See also:chap. iii.) as" remarkable, although little known," Unparteiische Kim/ten- and Ketzerhistorie, in which he has been thought by some to show more impartiality towards See also:heresy than towards the Church (cp. See also:Otto See also:Pfleiderer, Development of Theology, p. 277).

His next work, Geheimniss der gottlichen See also:

Sophia, published in 1700, seemed to indicate that he had See also:developed a See also:form of See also:mysticism. Soon afterwards, however, his See also:acceptance of a pastorate marked a See also:change, and he produced a number of noteworthy See also:works on See also:practical theology. He was also known as the author of sacred poems. Gottfried Arnold has rightly been classed with the pietistic See also:section of Protestant historians (Bibliotheca Sacra, 1850). See Calwer-See also:Zeller, Theologisches Handworterbuch, and the See also:account of him in See also:Albert Knapp's new edition of Die erste Liebe zu Christo (1845).

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