KARL See also:DAUB (1765-1836)
, See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at See also:Cassel on the loth of See also:March 1765
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He studied See also:philosophy, See also:philology and See also:theology at See also:Marburg in 1786, and eventually (1795) became See also:professor ordinarius of theology at See also:Heidelberg, where he died on the 22nd of See also:November 1836
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See also:Daub was one of the leaders of a school which sought to reconcile theology and philosophy, and to bring about a speculative reconstruction of orthodox See also:dogma
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In the course of his intellectual development, he came successively under the See also:influence of See also:Kant, See also:Schelling and See also:Hegel, and on See also:account of the different phases through which he passed he was called the Talleyrand of German thought
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There was one See also:great defect in his speculative theology: he ignored See also:historical See also:criticism
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His purpose was, as See also:Otto See also:Pfleiderer says, " to connect the metaphysical ideas, which
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had been arrived at by means of philosophical See also:dialectic, directly with the persons and events of the See also:Gospel narratives, thus raising these above the region of See also:ordinary experience into that of the supernatural, and regarding the most absurd assertions as philosophically justified
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Daub had become so hopelessly addicted to this perverse principle that he deduced not only Jesus as the embodiment of the philosophical See also:idea of the See also:union of See also:God and See also:man, but also Judas Iscariot as the embodiment of the idea of a See also:rival god, or Satan." The three stages in Daub's development are clearly marked in his writings
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His Lehrbuch der Katechetik (18ot) was written under the spell of Kant
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His Theologumena (18o6), his Einleitung in das Studium der christl
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Dogmatik (181o), and his Judas Ischarioth (2 vols., 1816, 2nd ed., 1818), were all written in the spirit of Schelling, the last of them reflecting a See also:change in Schelling himself from See also:theosophy to See also:positive philosophy
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Daub's See also:Die dogmatische Theologi jetziger Zeit See also:oder die Selbstsucht in der Wissenschaft See also:des Glaubens (1833), and Vorlesungen ilber die Prolegomena zur Dogmatik (1839), are Hegelian in principle and obscure in See also:language
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See See also:Rosenkranz, Erinnerungen an Karl Daub (1837) ; D
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See also:Strauss, Charakteristiken and Kritiken (2nd ed., 1844) ; and cf
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Lichtenberger, See also:History of German Theology (1889); Otto Pfleiderer, Development of Theology (189o)
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