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KARL AUGUST VON HASE (1800-1890)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUST VON See also:HASE (1800-1890)  , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian and See also:Church historian, was See also:born at Steinbach in See also:Saxony on the 25th of See also:August 1800 . He studied at See also:Leipzig and See also:Erlangen, and in 1829 was called to See also:Jena as See also:professor of See also:theology . He retired in 1883 and was made a See also:baron . He died at Jena on the 3rd of See also:January 189o . See also:Hase's aim was to reconcile See also:modern culture with See also:historical See also:Christianity in a scientific way . But though a liberal theologian, he was no dry rationalist . Indeed, he vigorously attacked See also:rationalism, as distinguished from the rational principle, charging it with being unscientific inasmuch as it ignored the historical significance of Christianity, shut its eyes to individuality and failed to give religious feeling its due . His views are presented scientifically in his Evangelisch-protestantische Dogmatik (1826; 6th ed., 1870), the value of which " lies partly in the full and judiciously chosen historical materials prefixed to each See also:dogma, and partly in the skill, caution and tact with which the permanent religious significance of various dogmas is discussed " (See also:Otto See also:Pfleiderer) . More popular in See also:style is his Gnosis See also:oder prot.-evang . Glaubenslehre (3 vols., 1827-1829; 2nd ed. in 2 vols., 1869-1870) . But his reputation rests chiefly on his treatment of Church See also:history in his Kirchengeschichte, Lehrbuch zundchst fiir akademische Vorlesungen (1834, 12th ed., 'goo) . His See also:biographical studies, See also:Franz von See also:Assisi (1856; 2nd ed., 1892), Katerina von See also:Siena (1864; 2nd ed., 1892), Neue Propheten (See also:Die See also:Jungfrau von See also:Orleans, See also:Savonarola, See also:Thomas Miinzer) are judicious and sympathetic .

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works are: Hutterus redivivus oder Dogmatik der evang.-luth . Kirche (1827; 12th ed., 1883), in which he sought to See also:present the teaching of the Protestant church in such a way as See also:Hutter would have reconstructed it, had he still been alive; Leben Jesu (1829; 5th ed., 1865; Eng. trans., 186o) ; in an enlarged See also:form, Geschichte Jesu (2nd ed., 1891); and Handbuch der Prot . Polemik gegen die rom.-kath . Kirche (1862; 7th ed., 1900; Eng. trans., 1906) . For his See also:life see his Ideale and Irrtdmer (1872; 5th ed., 1894) and Annalen meines Lebens (1891); and cf. generally Otto Pfleiderer, Development of Theology (189o) ; F . Lichtenberger, Hist. of German Theology (1889) .

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