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MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)

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MULLER, See also:JULIUS (18oi-1878) , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at See also:Brieg on the loth of See also:April 18o,. He studied at See also:Breslau, See also:Gottingen and See also:Berlin, first See also:law, then See also:theology; and in 1839 became See also:professor ordinarius of theology at See also:Halle (1839). In 1848 he helped to found the See also:Deutsch-evang. Kirchentag, and two years later founded and edited (1850-1861), with See also:Neander and K. I. See also:Nitzsch, the Deutsche Zeitschrift fiir christliche Wissenschaft and christliches Leben. He died at Halle on the 27th of See also:September 1878. A See also:disciple of Neander and friend of See also:Richard See also:Rothe, Muller bitterly opposed the See also:philosophy of See also:Hegel and the See also:criticism of F. C. See also:Baur. His See also:book, Uber den Gegensatz See also:des Protestantismus and des Catholicismus (1833), called forth a reply from Baur, and he was one of those who attacked D. See also:Strauss's See also:Life of Jesus.

In 1846 he had been deputed to attend the See also:

General Evangelical See also:Synod at Berlin. Here he supported the Consensus-See also:Union, and afterwards defended himself in the See also:pamphlets See also:Die erste Generalsynode der evang. Landeskirche Preussen (1847) and Die evangelische Union, ihr Wesen and gottliches Recht (1854). His See also:chief See also:work, however, was Die christliche Lehre der Siinde (2 vols., 1839; 5th ed., 1867; Eng. trans. from 5th ed.), in which he carried See also:scholasticism so far as " to revive the See also:ancient Gnostic theory of the fall of See also:man before all See also:time, a theory which found no favour amongst his theological See also:friends " (See also:Otto Pfieiderer). See also:Miller's other See also:works include Dogmat. Abhandlungen (187o), and Das christliche Leben (3rd ed., 1847). See M. Kahler, Julius Muller (1878); L. See also:Schultze, Julius Muller (1879) and Julius Muller als Ethiker (1895).

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