Johann Peter Lange

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Johann Peter Lange

Johann Peter Lange (born April 10, 1802 on Bies in the district of Sonnborn near Elberfeld (today Wuppertal ), † July 8, 1884 in Bonn ) was a German Reformed theologian .

Life

Johann Peter Lange was the son of a carter and the father of the philosopher Friedrich Albert Lange . Lange studied theology in Bonn from 1822 and heard, among others, Karl Immanuel Nitzsch and Friedrich Lücke and became a follower of Friedrich Schleiermacher's theology .

From 1832 he was pastor in Duisburg . Here he founded a women's association to support penniless women who had recently given birth and fought against child labor and made friends with Dietrich Wilhelm Landfermann . In Duisburg he also wrote in 1836 his work, directed against David Friedrich Strauss , On the Historical Character of the Canonical Gospels, especially the Childhood Story of Jesus , which in 1841 earned him the appointment to the University of Zurich (chair assigned to Strauss). In 1854 Lange accepted a position at the University of Bonn . From 1860 onwards he worked as a consistorial councilor, and from 1875 as senior consistorial councilor in the consistory of the Rhenish provincial church in Koblenz.

Lange was a fruitful author who published a large number of exegetical and systematic writings and who also commented regularly on church issues of the time. As a “ positive ” theologian, he continued to grapple with Strauss and opposed his life of Jesus with his own The life of Jesus, depicted in the Gospels (1844–47). His Christian Dogmatics (1849–52) and the Theological-Homiletic Biblical Work 1857–76, a series of commentaries for which Lange himself wrote a number of volumes and which are also included in the English translation for which Philip Schaff was responsible ( A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical, with Special Reference to Ministers and Students , 1864-80) was very successful. Some of the hymns composed by Lange were included in contemporary collections, but none can be found in more recent hymn books .

Fonts

  • The scriptures doctrine of the free and universal grace of God. Elberfeld, 1831.
  • Biblical seals. 1. Ribbon. Elberfeld, 1832. Digitized
  • Sermons. Munich, 1833.
  • Biblical seals. 2nd ribbon. Elberfeld, 1834.
  • Little polemical poems. Duisburg, 1835.
  • Poems and sayings from the area of ​​Christian observation of nature. Duisburg, 1835.
  • The world of the Lord in didactic chants. Essen, 1835.
  • The darkening of the world. Didactic poem. Berlin, 1838.
  • Basics of the early Christian good news. Duisburg, 1839.
  • Homilies on Colossians 3. 1–17. Fourth edition. Bremen, 1844.
  • Christian reflections on related biblical passages for domestic edification. Duisburg, 1841.
  • About the historical character of the canonical gospels, especially the childhood story of Jesus, with reference to the life of Jesus by DF Strauss. Duisburg, 1836.
  • The land of glory, or the Christian doctrine of heaven. Mörs, 1838.
  • Mixed writings, 4 volumes. Mörs, 1840–41.
  • Poems. Essen, 1843.
  • Church hymnology, or the doctrine of hymn. Theoretical introduction and hymn book. Zurich, 1843.
  • The life of Jesus, 3 books. Heidelberg, 1844–47.
  • Words of defense (in relation to the life of Jesus). Zurich, 1846.
  • Christian dogmatics, 3 volumes. Philosophical, Positive, and Applied Dogmatics. Heidelberg, 1847.
  • About the reorganization of the relationship between the state and the church. Heidelberg, 1848.
  • New Testament poems of time. Frankfurt a. M., 1849.
  • Letters from a communist prophet. Wroclaw, 1850.
  • Göthe's religious poetry. Wroclaw, 1850.
  • The History of the Church, Part One. The Apostolic Age, 2 volumes. Braunschweig, 1853 – '54.
  • Selection of guest and occasional sermons. Second edition. Bonn, 1857.
  • From the Mount of Olives. Spiritual seals. New edition. Frankfurt a. M., 1858.
  • Mixed fonts. New episode, 2 volumes. Bielefeld, 1860.
  • Theological-homiletic biblical work, Bielefeld, 1857

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SURNAME Lange, Johann Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH on Bies in the district of Sonnborn near Elberfeld (today Wuppertal)
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1884
Place of death Bonn