Johann Peter Lange

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Johann Peter Lange

Johann Peter Lange (German:

Calvinist theologian
of peasant origin.

Biography

He was born at Sonnborn near Elberfeld, and studied

old-Prussian Rhenish Ecclesiastical Province
.

Theology

"Lange has been called the poetical theologian par excellence: “It has been said of him that his thoughts succeed each other in such rapid and agitated waves that all calm reflection and all rational distinction become, in a manner, drowned” (F. Lichtenberger).

As a

Schleiermacher. His Christliche Dogmatik (5 vols, 1849–1852; new edition, 1870) “contains many fruitful and suggestive thoughts, which, however, are hidden under such a mass of bold figures and strange fancies and suffer so much from want of clearness of presentation, that they did not produce any lasting effect” (Otto Pfleiderer)."[1]

Writings

His other works include Das Leben Jesu (3 vols, 1844–1847; Eng. trans. 1864 and 1872), Das apostolische Zeitalter (2 vols, 1853–1854), Grundriss der theologischen Encyklopädie (1877), Grundriss der christlichen Ethik (1878), and Grundriss der Bibelkunde (1881). In 1857 he undertook with other scholars a Theologisch-homiletisches Bibelwerk, to which he contributed commentaries on the first four books of the

Pentateuch, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Matthew, Mark, Revelation. The Bibelwerk was translated into English, enlarged and revised under the general editorship of Philip Schaff, with assistance of other scholars from the United States of various denominations, under the title A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical (25 vols., New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1865–80).[2]

References

  1. ^ "The Encyclopaedia Britannica". 11th ed. 16. New York: The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company. 1911: 173. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ Available online at http://biblehub.com/commentaries/lange/

Further reading

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