Hermann Schultz German

Germany

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 Protestant theologian

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

, was born at Lüchow

Lüchow

Lüchow is a city in northeastern Lower Saxony, in Germany. It is the seat of the Samtgemeinde Lüchow , and is the capital of the district Lüchow-Dannenberg. Situated approximately 13 km north of Salzwedel, Lüchow is located on the German Framework Road...

 in Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

 (now in Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

).

Education

He studied at Göttingen and Erlangen, became professor at Basel

University of Basel

The University of Basel is located in Basel, Switzerland, and is considered to be one of leading universities in the country...

 in 1864, and eventually (1876) professor ordinarius at Göttingen. Here he also held the appointments of chief university preacher, councillor to the consistory (from 1881) and abbot of Bursfelde (1890).

Religious position

Professor Schultz's theological standpoint was that of a moderate liberal. "It is thought by many that he has succeeded in discovering the via media between the positions of Biblical scholars like Delitzsch

Franz Delitzsch

Franz Delitzsch was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Born in Leipzig, he held the professorship of theology at the University of Rostock from 1846 to 1850, at the University of Erlangen until 1867, and after that at the University of Leipzig until his death...

 on the one hand and Stade on the other" (Prof. JA Paterson). He was well known to British and American students as the author of an excellent work on Old Testament Theology (2 vols., 1869, 5th ed., 1896; Eng. trans., 2nd ed., 1895).

Divinity of Christ

In his work on the doctrine of the Divinity of Christ

Christ

Christ is the English term for the Greek meaning "the anointed one". It is a translation of the Hebrew , usually transliterated into English as Messiah or Mashiach...

 (Die Lehre von der Gottheit Christi, 1881) he followed the method of Ritschl

Albrecht Ritschl

Albrecht Ritschl was a German theologian.Starting in 1852, Ritschl lectured on "Systematic Theology". According to this system, faith was understood to be irreducible to other experiences, beyond the scope of reason. Faith, he said, came not from facts but from value judgments...

, and contended that the deity of Christ ought to be understood as the expression of the experience of the Christian community. In his own person and work Christ represents to the community a personal revelation of God

God

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. Faith in the divinity of Christ does not rest upon a miracle in nature, but upon a miracle in the moral world.

Schultz's other works

• Die Stellung des christl. Glaubens zur heiligen Schrift (1876; 2nd ed., 1877)
• Lehre vom heiligen Abendmahl (1886)
• Grundriss der evang. Dogmatik (1890; 2nd ed., 1892)
• Grundriss der evang. Ethik (2nd ed., 1897)
• Grundriss der christl. Apologetik (2nd ed., 1902).