Insisting that the simple message of jesus had been obscured by church dogma, he defined the essence of christianity as love of god and neighbour. Harnacks multivolume work is considered a monument of liberal christian historiography. Del siglo i al siglo xxi historia general del cristianismo coleccion historia y alfonso ropero ph. Publication date 1904 topics christianity essence, genius, nature.
Son of the lutheran scholar theodosius harnack 181789, he taught at leipzig 1874 before becoming professor at giessen 1879, marburg 1886, and berlin 18891921. Several family members were executed by the nazis during the last years of the third reich. E stato uno dei piu rilevanti teologi protestanti e storici del cristianesimo della fine del xix ed inizio del xx secolo. Publication date 1904 topics christianity essence, genius, nature publisher barcelona. Harnack is the surname of a german family of intellectuals, artists, mathematicians, scientists, theologians and those in other fields. Thus, for harnack, 1 adolf harnack, the history of dogma, trans. In his essays on the social gospel, he encourages christians not only to care for the poor and the oppressed, but also to. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. After his mothers death in 1857, he became especially connected to his father, theodosius andreas harnack, who was a teacher of homiletics and church history at the lutheran university in dorpat a part of east prussia. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912 in which he is sometimes credited as adolf harnack. He believed christianity, rather than a list of beliefs to check off, was a way of life. For harnack, applying the methods of historical criticism to the bible signified a return to true christianity, which had become mired in unnecessary and even damaging creeds and dogmas. Publication date 1957 topics christianity publisher new york, harper.
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