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Neander's theological position can only be explained in connexion with See also:Schleiermacher, and the manner in which while adopting he modified and carried out the principles of his See also:master. Characteristically meditative, he rested with a secure footing on the See also:great central truths of See also:Christianity, and recognized strongly their essential reasonableness and See also:harmony. Alive to the claims of See also:criticism, he no less strongly asserted the rights of See also:Christian feeling. " Without it," he emphatically says, " there can be no See also:theology; it can only thrive in the calmness of a soul consecrated to See also:God." This explains his favourite See also:motto: " Pectus est quod theologum facit." His See also:Church See also:History (Allgemeine Geschichte der christlichen See also:Religion and Kirche) remains the greatest See also:monument of his See also:genius. In this Neander's See also:chief aim was everywhere to understand what was individual in history. In the See also:principal figures of ecclesiastical history he tried to depict the representative tendencies of each See also:age, and also the types of the essential tendencies of human nature generally. His guiding principle in treating both of the history and of the See also:present See also:condition of the church was—that Christianity has See also:room for the various tendencies of human nature, and aims at permeating and glorifying them all; that according to the divine See also:plan these various tendencies are to occur successively and simultaneously and to counterbalance each other, so that the freedom and variety of the development of the spiritual See also:life ought not to be forced into a single dogmatic See also:form " (See also:Otto See also:Pfleiderer, Development of Theology, p. 28o). Several of his books have passed into new and revised See also:editions and have been translated into See also:English. Among these English versions may be mentioned See also:General History of the Christian Religion and Church, translated by J.

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Torrey (1850-1858) ; History of the Planting and Training of the Church by the Apostle, by J. E. See also:Ryland (185; See also:Julian and his See also:Generation, by G. V. See also:Cox (85o); Life of Jesus, by J. M'Clintock and C. E. See also:Blumenthal (1848); and Memorials of Christian Life in the See also:Early and See also:Middle Ages, by J. E. Ryland (1852). See O. C.

Krabbe, See also:

August Neander (1852), and a See also:paper by C. F. Kling (1800-1861) in the See also:Stud. u. Krit. for 1851 ; J. L. See also:Jacobi, Erinnerungen an August Neander (1882); Philipp See also:Schaff, Erinnerungen an Neander (1886) ; Adolph See also:Harnack, Rede auf August Neander (1889); A. F. J. Wiegand, Neanders Leben (1889); L. T. Schulze, August Neander (189o); and K. T.

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Schneider, August Neander (1894). Cf. See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, and P. Schaff, See also:Germany: its See also:Universities and Theology (1857).

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