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Carl Stange (born March 7, 1870 in Hamburg ; † December 5, 1959 in Göttingen ) was a Lutheran theologian , university professor and abbot of the Bursfelde monastery in the Weser Uplands .

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Carl Stange studied theology at the universities of Halle , Göttingen , Leipzig and Jena from 1888 to 1892 , and became a private lecturer at the theological faculty in Halle .

In 1903 Stange took on an unscheduled professorship at the University of Königsberg and in 1904 he became a professor in Greifswald , where he held the post of university rector in 1911/12.

In 1912, Carl Stange was appointed professor for systematic theology at the University of Göttingen, succeeding Paul Althaus the Elder , where he led the homiletic seminar together with Johannes Meyer . He was also a university preacher. He was retired on September 30, 1935.

On April 1, 1932, Carl Stange was appointed abbot of the Bursfelde monastery at Hann. Münden , lost this title in 1937 and held it again from 1949 until his death in 1959.

Carl Stange is considered a conservative Lutheran theologian. He directed u. a. the apologetic seminar founded in 1909 in Wernigerode (later the Luther Academy in Sondershausen ) and was a member of the General Evangelical Lutheran Conference .

In 1903 Carl Stange received the title of theological doctor from the University of Halle and in 1912 an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the Universities of Athens , Ödenburg and Uppsala .

He was the father of the sinologist Hans OH Stange (1903–1978) and the brother of the theologian Erich Stange (1888–1972).

Works

• Christian ethics in relation to modern ethics. Paulsen, Wundt, Hartmann. Goettingen 1892
• The systematic principles in the theology of Johannes Musaeus . Halle (Saale) 1895
• Dogma and its assessment in recent dogma history. Berlin 1898
• Introduction to ethics.

Volume 1: System and Critique of Ethical Systems. Leipzig 1900

Volume 2: Basics of Ethics. Leipzig 1901

• The train of thought of the Critique of Pure Reason. A guide for reading Leipzig 1902; 2nd, extended edition: Leipzig 1903; 3rd edition 1907; 4th and 5th edition 1920
• Tolstoy's problem . Reprinted from the General Evangelical Lutheran Church Newspaper. Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung Theodor Weicher , Leipzig 1903
• Theological essays. Leipzig 1905
• The dogmatic output of Ritschl's theology according to Julius Kaftan . Leipzig 1906
• Academic sermons. Leipzig 1907
• Outline of the philosophy of religion. Leipzig 1907
• The ideal of piety in modern theology. Leipzig 1907
• Modern problems of the Christian faith. Leipzig 1910
• Christianity and modern worldview. Leipzig 1911-1914.

Volume 1: The Problem of Religion. 1911

Volume 2: Law of nature and belief in miracles. 1914

• Sermons on selected Gospel texts. Leipzig 1912
• Communion with the living God. Twelve sermons delivered in the academic service in Göttingen. Leipzig 1914
• The truth of faith in Christ. With an appendix on the peculiarity of the Christian belief in God. Leipzig 1915
• Miracles and salvation history. Berlin-Lichterfelde 1917
• Religion as an experience. Gütersloh 1919
• Luther and the moral ideal. Gütersloh 1919
• Fallen in the field of honor. Sheets in memory of his son Franz Balthasar Stange. Gütersloh 1919
• The ethics of Kant. Introducing the Critique of Practical Reason. Leipzig 1920
• To understand Christianity. Six lectures on contemporary issues of the Christian faith. Gütersloh 1920
• The doctrine of the sacraments. Gütersloh 1920
• The Fall of the West by Oswald Spengler. Gütersloh 1921
• As an introduction to the thoughts of Luther. Gütersloh 1921
• Main problems of ethics. Leipzig 1922
• Albrecht Ritschl. The historical position of his theology. Leipzig 1922
• Christian and philosophical worldview. Gütersloh 1923
• Modern problems of the Christian faith. 2nd, expanded edition. Leipzig 1923J
• Jesus the Savior. Sermons. Gütersloh 1924
• The immortality of the soul. Lecture. Gütersloh 1925
• Our faith. Sermons. Gütersloh 1926
• Introduction to dogmatics. Gütersloh 1927
• Studies on theology of Luther. Gütersloh 1928
• The glory of God. Sermons. Berlin 1928
• Luther and the Fifth Lateran Council. Gütersloh 1928
• The end of all things. Christian hope, its reason and aim. Gütersloh 1930
• Luther's thoughts on the fear of death. Berlin 1932
• The meaning of prayer for the knowledge of God. Gütersloh 1933
• Natural theology. On the crisis of dialectical theology. In: Journal for systematic theology 12 (1935), pp. 368–452.
• The Johannine type of Luther's doctrine of salvation in relation to the Pauline doctrine of justification. Gütersloh 1949
• Luther and the Gospel. 1. How Luther became a reformer. 2. The baptism of Jesus. Berlin 1953
• Bernhard of Clairvaux . Berlin 1954
• The beginnings of Luther's theology. Berlin 1957
• The peculiarity of the biblical belief in God. 1958.

literature

• Klaus Gunther Wesseling:  Carl Stange. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 1153-1159.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Stange in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Max Bleibtreu	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1911/12	Karl Oldenberg