MARHEINEKE, PHILIP KONRAD (1780-1846)

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MARHEINEKE, PHILIP KONRAD (1780-1846) , German

Protestant

PROTESTANT

divine, was born at

Hildesheim

HILDESHEIM

, Hanover, on the 1st of May 1780. He studied at Gottingen, and in 1805 was appointed professor extraordinarius of philosophy at Erlangen; in 1807 he moved to

Heidelberg

HEIDELBERG

. In 1811 he became professor ordinarius at Berlin, where from 1820 he was also preacher at Trinity

Church

and worked with Schleiermacher. When he died, on the 31st of May 1846, he was a member of the supreme consistorial council. At first influenced by Schelling, Marheineke found a new master in

Hegel

HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1770-1831)

, and came to be regarded as the leader of the Hegelian Right. He sought to defend and explain all the orthodox doctrines of the

Church

in an orthodox way in the terms of

Hegel

HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1770-1831)

's philosophy. The dogmatic

system

SYSTEM

that resulted from this

procedure

PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from Lat. procedere, to go for-ward)

was inevitably more Hegelian than Christian; it was in fact an essentially new form of Christianity. Marheineke's developed views on dogmatics are given in the third edition (1847) of his Die Grundlehren der christlichen Dogmatik als Wissenschaft. When he published the first edition (1819) he was still under the influence of Schelling; the second edition (1827) marked his

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

of view. His works on symbolics show profound scholarship, keen

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

insight, and rare impartiality. The Christliche Symbolik (1810-1814) has been pronounced his masterpiece
His other works include Institutiones symbolicae (1812; 3rd ed., 1830), Geschichte der deutschen Reformation (1816; 2nd ed., 18311834) ; Die Reformation, ihre Entstehung and Verbreitung in Deutsch-land (1846; 2nd ed., 1858), and the posthumous Theol. Vorlesungen (1847-1849).
See F. Lichtenberger, History of German Theology (1889) ; A. Weber, Le Sys/elite dogmatique de Marheineke (1857) ; and cf. O. Pfleiderer, Development of Theology in Germany (189o).

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