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HERMES, GEORG (1775-1831)

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HERMES, GEORG (1775-1831) , See also:German See also:Roman See also:Catholic theologian, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:April 1775, at Dreyerwalde, in See also:Westphalia, and was educated at the gymnasium and university of See also:Munster, in both of which institutions he afterwardstaught. In 182o he was appointed See also:professor of See also:theology at See also:Bonn, where he died on the 26th of May 1831. Hermes had a devoted See also:band of adherents, of whom the most notable was See also:Peter Josef Elvenich (1796-1886), who became professor at See also:Breslau in 1829, and in 187o threw in his See also:lot with the Old Catholic See also:movement. His See also:works were Untersuchungen fiber See also:die inhere Wahrheit See also:des Christenthums (Munster, 18o5), and Einleitung in die christkatholische Theologie, of which the first See also:part, a philosophical introduction, was published in 1819, the second part, on See also:positive theology, in.1829. The Einleitung was never completed. His Christkatholische Dogmatik was published, from his lectures, after his See also:death by two of his students, Achterfeld and Braun (3 vols., 1831—1834). The Einleitung is a remarkable See also:work, both in itself and in its effect upon Catholic theology in See also:Germany. Few works of See also:modern times have excited a more keen and See also:bitter controversy. Hermes himself was very largely under the See also:influence of the Kantian and Fichtean ideas, and though in the philosophical portion of his Einleitung he criticizes both these thinkers severely, rejects their See also:doctrine of the moral See also:law as the See also:sole See also:guarantee for the existence of See also:God, and condemns their restricted view of the possibility and nature of See also:revelation, enough remained of purely speculative material to render his See also:system See also:obnoxious to his See also:church. After his death, the contests between his followers and their opponents See also:grew so bitter that the dispute was referred to the papal see. The See also:judgment was adverse, and on the 25th of See also:September 1835 a papal See also:bull condemned both parts of the Einleitung and the first See also:volume of the Dogmatik. Two months later the remaining volumes of the Dogmatik were likewise condemned.

The controversy did not cease, and in 1845 a systematic See also:

attempt was made anonymously by F. X. See also:Werner to examine and refute the Hermesian doctrines, as contrasted with the orthodox Catholic faith (Der Hermesianismus, 1845). In 1847 the condemnation of 1835 was confirmed by See also:Pius IX. See K. Werner, Geschichte der katholischen Theologie (1866), pp. 4.05 sqq.

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