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LUTHARDT, CHRISTOPH ERNST (1823-1902)

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LUTHARDT, CHRISTOPH See also:ERNST (1823-1902) , See also:German Lutheran theologian, was See also:born at Maroldsweisach, See also:Bavaria, on the 22nd of See also:March 1823. He studied See also:theology at See also:Erlangen and See also:Berlin, and in 1856 became See also:professor ordinarius of systematic theology and New Testament exegesis at See also:Leipzig. In 1865 he was 'made a counsellor to the See also:consistory, in 1871 See also:canon of See also:Meissen See also:cathedral, and in 1887 a privy councillor to the See also:church. He died at Leipzig on the 21st of See also:September 1902. A strictly orthodox theologian, and a clear writer, though not a very profound See also:scholar, Luthardt became widely appreciated as the author of apologetic lectures. These were collected under the See also:title Apologie See also:des Christenlums (vol. i., 1864, 14th ed. 1896; vol. ii. 7th ed., 19o1; vol. iii. 7th ed., 1898; vol. iv. 2nd ed., 188o), a See also:work of which the first three volumes have been translated into See also:English. In 1868 he founded and edited the Allgemeine evang.-lutherische Kirchenzeilung, with its supplement the Theologisches Litteraturblatt, and in 188o became editor of the Zeitschrift See also:fur kirchl. Wissenschaft and kirchl.

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works include Das Johanneische Evangelium . . . erkldrt (1852-18J3; 2nd ed. in 2 vols., 1875-1876), Offenbarung Johannis erkldrt (1861), Lehre von den letzten Dingen (1861; 3rd ed. 1885); Kompendium der Dogmatik (1865; 9th ed., 1893), Geschichte der christlichen Ethik (2 vols., 1888-1893), Gnade and Wahrheit (1874), Das Wort des Lebens (1877) and Gnade and Frieden (188o). His autobiography was published with the title Erinnerungen aus vergangenen Tagen (1889; 2nd ed., 1891).

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