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See also:KAHNIS, KARL See also:FRIEDRICH See also:AUGUST (1814-1888) , See also:German Lutheran theologian, was See also:born at See also:Greiz on the 22nd of See also:December 1814. He studied at See also:Halle, and in r85o was appointed See also:professor ordinarius at See also:Leipzig. Ten years later he was made See also:canon of See also:Meissen. He retired in 1886, and died on the loth of See also:June 1888 at Leipzig. Kahnis was at first a neo-Lutheran, blessed by E. W. See also:Hengstenberg and his pietistic See also:friends. He then attached himself to the Old Lutheran party, interpreting Lutheranism in a broad and liberal spirit and showing some appreciation of See also:rationalism. His Lutherische Dogmatik, historischgenetisch dargestellt (3 vols., 1861-1868; 2nd ed. in 2 vols., 1894-1875), by making concessions to See also:modern See also:criticism, by spiritualizing and adapting the old dogmas, by attacking the See also:idea of an infallible canon of Scripture and the conventional theory of See also:inspiration, by laying stress on the human See also:side' of Scripture and insisting on the progressive See also:character of See also:revelation, brought him into conflict with his former friends. A. W. Diekhoff, See also:Franz See also:Delitzsch (See also:Fur and wider Kahnis, 1863) and Hengstenberg (Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, 1862) protested loudly against the See also:heresy, and Kahnis replied to Hengstenberg in a vigorous pamphlet, Zeugniss fur See also:die Grundwahrheiten See also:des Protestantismus gegen Dr Hengstenberg (1862).. Other See also:works by Kahnis are Lehre vom Abendmahl (1851), Der innere Gang des deutschen Protestantismus seit Matte des vorigen Jahrhunderts (1854; 3rd ed. in 2 vols., 1874; Eng. trans., 1856) ; Christentum and Luthertum 0870; Geschichte der deutschen See also:Reformation, vol. i. (1872) ; Der Gang der Kirche in Lebensbildern (1881, &c.) ; and Ober des Verhaltnis der See also:alten Philosophie zum Christentum (1884).
K'AI-FENG FU, the See also:capital of the See also:province of Honan, See also:China. It is situated in 34° 52' N., 114° 33' E., on a See also:branch See also:line of the See also:Peking-See also:Hankow railway, and forms also the See also:district See also:city of Siang-fu. A city on the See also:present site was first built by See also:Duke Chwang (774-700 B.C.) to See also:mark off (k'ai) the boundary of'his See also:fief (eng); hence its name. It has, however, passed under several aliases in See also:Chinese See also:history. During the Chow, Suy and T'ang dynasties (557-907) it was known as P'ien-chow. During the Wu-tai, or five dynasties (907-960), it was the Tung-See also: In 1642 it. was totally destroyed by a See also:flood caused by the dikes bursting, and on several See also:prior and subsequent occasions it has suffered injury from the same Cause. The city is large and imposing, with broad -streets and handsome buildings, the most notable of which are a twelve-storeyed See also:pagoda 600 ft. high, and a See also:watch See also:tower from which, at a height of 200 ft., the inhabitants are able to observe the approach of the yellow See also:waters of the river in times of flood. The city See also:wall forms a substantial See also:protection and is pierced by five See also:gates. The whole See also:neighbour-See also:hood, which is the site of one of the earliest settlements of the Chinese in China, is full of See also:historical associations, and it was in this city that the See also:Jews who entered China in A.D. 1163 first established a See also:colony. For many centuries these See also:people held themselves aloof from the natives, and practised the See also:rites of their See also:religion in a See also:temple built and supported by themselves. At last, however, they See also:fell upon evil times, and in 1851, out of the seventy families which constituted the original colony, only seven remained. For fifty years no See also:rabbi had ministered to the wants of this remnant. In 1853 the city was attacked by the T'ai-p'See also:ing rebels, and, though at the first See also:assault its defenders successfully resisted the enemy, it was subsequently taken. The captors looted and partially destroyed the See also:town. It has now little See also:commerce, but contains several See also:schools on Western lines—including a See also:government See also:college opened in 1902, and a military school near the railway station. A See also:mint was established in 1905, and there is a district branch of the imperial See also:post. The See also:population—largely Mahommedanwas estimated (1908) at 200,000. Jews numbered about 400. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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