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GOTTFRIED ARNOLD (1666-1714)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 635 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARNOLD (1666-1714)  , See also:German See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Annaberg, in See also:Saxony, where his See also:father was a schoolmaster . In 1682 he went to the Gymnasium at See also:Gera, and three years later to the university of See also:Wittenberg . Here he made a See also:special study of See also:theology and See also:history, and afterwards, through the See also:influence of P . J . Spener, " the father of See also:pietism," he became See also:tutor in Quedlinburg . His first See also:work, See also:Die Erste Liebe zu.Christo, to which in See also:modern times See also:attention was again directed by See also:Leo See also:Tolstoy, appeared in 1696 . It went through five See also:editions before 1728, and gained the author much reputation . In the See also:year after its publication he was invited to See also:Giessen as See also:professor of See also:church history . The See also:life and work here, however, proved so distasteful to him that he resigned in 1698, and returned to Quedlinburg . In 1699 he began to publish his largest work, described by Tolstoy (The See also:Kingdom of See also:God is within You, See also:chap. iii.) as" remarkable, although little known," Unparteiische Kim/ten- and Ketzerhistorie, in which he has been thought by some to show more impartiality towards See also:heresy than towards the Church (cp . See also:Otto See also:Pfleiderer, Development of Theology, p . 277) .

His next work, Geheimniss der gottlichen See also:

Sophia, published in 1700, seemed to indicate that he had See also:developed a See also:form of See also:mysticism . Soon afterwards, however, his See also:acceptance of a pastorate marked a See also:change, and he produced a number of noteworthy See also:works on See also:practical theology . He was also known as the author of sacred poems . Gottfried See also:Arnold has rightly been classed with the pietistic See also:section of Protestant historians (Bibliotheca Sacra, 1850) . See Calwer-See also:Zeller, Theologisches Handworterbuch, and the See also:account of him in See also:Albert Knapp's new edition of Die erste Liebe zu Christo (1845) .

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