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MOHLER, JOHANN ADAM (17961838) , German theologian, was born at Igersheim in Wurttemberg on the 6th of May 1796, and after studying philosophy and theology in the lyceum at Ellwangen
where he became privatdozent in 1822, extraordinary professor of theology in 1826 and ordinary professor in 1828. His lectures drew large audiences, including many Protestants. The controversies excited by his Symbolik (1832) proved so unpleasant that in 1835 he accepted a call
Munich
Mohler wrote Die Einheit in der Kirche oder des Prinzip des Katholicismus (Tubingen, 1825) ; Athanasius der Grosse u. d. Kirche seiner Zeit (2 vols., Mainz, 1827) ; Symbolik, oder Darstellung der dogmatischen Gegensdtze der Katholiken u. Protestanten nach ihren offentlichen Bekenntnissschriften (Mainz, 1832; 8th ed., 18711872; Eng. trans. by J. B. Robertson, 1843); and Neue Untersuchungen der Lehrgegensdtze zwischen den Katholiken u. Protestanten (1834). His Gesammelte Schriften u. Aufsdtze were edited by Dollinger in 1839; his Patrologie by Reithmayr, also in 1839; and a Biographie by B. Worner was published at Regensburg in 1866. It is with the Symbolik that his name is chiefly associated; the interest
Protestant
appearance it had elicited three replies of considerable Importance, those namely of F. C. Baur, P. K. Marheineke and C. J. Nitzsch. But, although characterized by learning and acuteness, as well as by considerable breadth of spiritual sympathy, it cannot be said to have been accepted by Catholics themselves as embodying an accurate objective view of the actual doctrine
great
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