WEISSE, CHRISTIAN HERMANN (18oi1866)

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WEISSE, CHRISTIAN HERMANN (18oi1866) , German

Protestant

PROTESTANT

religious philosopher, was born at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

on the loth of August 1801. He studied at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, and at first belonged to the Hegelian school of philosophy. In course of time, how-ever, his ideas approximating to those of Schelling in his later years, he elaborated with I. H. v. Fichte a new speculative theism, and became an opponent of

Hegel

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

's pantheistic idealism. In his addresses on the future of the

Protestant

PROTESTANT

Church

CHURCH
CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish
kirk
- KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
RICHARD
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RICHARD
WILLIAM (1815–189o)
CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

(Reden fiber die Zukunft der evangelischen Kirche, 1849), he finds the essence of Christianity in Jesus's conceptions of the heavenly Father, the Son of Man and the kingdom of

Heaven

HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges

. In his

work

WORK

on philosophical dogmatics (Philosophische Dogmatik oder Philosophic des Christentums, 3 vols. 18551862) he seeks, by idealizing all the Christian dogmas, to reduce them to natural postulates of reason or conscience. He died on the 19th of September 1866.
His other works include: Die Idee der Gottheit (1833), Die philosophische Geheimlehre von der Unsterblichkeit des menschlichen Individuums (1834), Buchlein von der Auferstehung (1836), Die evangelische Geschichte, kritisch and philosophisch bearbeitet (2 vols., 1838), and Psychologie and Unsterblichkeitslehre (edited by R. Seydel, 1869). See O.

Pfleiderer

PFLEIDERER, OTTO (1839—1908)

, Development of Theology (189o) ; and cf. R. Seydel, Christ. Herm. Weisse (1866), and Religion and Wissenschaft (1887).

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