Abraham Dirk Loman

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Abraham Dirk Loman

Abraham Dirk Loman (born September 16, 1823 in The Hague , † April 17, 1897 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch theologian. He worked as a professor from 1856 to 1893. In his later life he belonged to the Dutch radical school .

Life

Loman was the son of a minister (preacher) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands . In 1840 he began studying theology and in 1846 also became a minister. In 1856 he received a professorship at the Lutheran seminary in Amsterdam. Although he gradually lost his sight from the beginning of 1870, he continued his work. In 1877 he received a professorship in theology at the University of Amsterdam , which he held until his retirement in 1893.

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Loman introduced modern theology to the Dutch Lutheran Church . He taught all theological disciplines , but from 1867 concentrated on the New Testament and early Christian literature. He wrote a book on the Muratori canon , but published mainly in professional journals. In many of his views he agreed with the Tübingen School founded by Ferdinand Christian Baur . When his colleague Allard Pierson denied the authenticity of the letter to Galatians in 1878 , Loman responded with passionate condemnation.

But this changed from 1880. Loman then advocated the theory of the Jesus myth and aroused great consternation when he claimed in a public lecture on December 13, 1881 in the building of the Free Congregation (Vrije Gemeente) in Amsterdam that Jesus was not one historical person and everything that is known about him is a fiction of the second century. In his Quaestiones Paulinae (1882, 1883, 1886) he rejected Paul's authorship of Galatians. He argued that the letters of Paul were not mentioned by Justin the Martyr and that the first datable quotations can only be found in Marcion .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HU Meyboom: Leven van report AD Loman , Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (1898)
  2. ↑ a b A.J. Allan A Forgotten Chapter: the Radicals ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kerk & Wereld (1995) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radikalkritik.de
  3. ↑ a b A. de Groot: Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme , 1978, chapter Loman, Abraham Dirk
  4. ↑ Klaus Schilling: A survey: GA van den Bergh van Eysinga Radikalkritik - de omnibus dubitandum (2003), archiving of the original
personal data
SURNAME Loman, Abraham Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1897
Place of death Amsterdam