KARL JOSEF VON See also:HEFELE (1809-1893)
, See also:German theologian, was See also:born at Unterkochen in See also:Wurttemberg on the 15th of See also:March 1809, and was educated at See also:Tubingen, where in 1839 he became See also:professor-See also:ordinary of See also:- 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, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church See also:history and patristics in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:faculty of See also:theology
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From 1842 to 1845 he sat in the See also:National See also:Assembly of Wurttemberg
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In See also:December 1869 he was enthroned See also:bishop of See also:Rottenburg
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His See also:literary activity, which had been considerable, was in ho way diminished by his See also:elevation to the episcopate
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Among his numerous theological See also:works may be mentioned his well-known edition of the Apostolic Fathers, issued in 1839; his See also:Life of See also:Cardinal Ximenes, published in 1844 (Eng. trans., 186o) ; and his still more celebrated History of the See also:Councils of the Church, in seven volumes, which appeared between 1855 and 1874 (Eng. trans., 1871, 1882)
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See also:Hefele's theological opinions inclined towards the more liberal school in the Roman Catholic Church, but he nevertheless received considerable signs of favour from its authorities, and was a member of the See also:commission that made preparations for the Vatican See also:Council of 187o
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On the See also:eve of that council he published at See also:Naples his Causa Honorii Papae, which aimed at demonstrating the moral and See also:historical impossibility of papal See also:infallibility
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About the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he brought out a See also:work in German on the same subject
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He took rather a prominent See also:part in the discussions at the council, associating himself with See also:Felix See also:Dupanloup and with Georges See also:Darboy, See also:archbishop of See also:Paris, in his opposition to the See also:doctrine of Infallibility, and supporting their arguments from his vast knowledge of ecclesiastical history
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In the preliminary discussions he voted against the promulgation of the See also:dogma
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He was absent from the important sitting of the 18th of See also:June 187o, and did not send in his submission to the decrees until 1871, when he explained in a See also:pastoral See also:letter that the dogma " referred only to doctrine given forth ex cathedra, and therein to the See also:definitions proper only, but not to its proofs or explanations." In 1872 he took part in the See also:congress summoned by the Ultramontanes at See also:Fulda, and by his judicious use of minimizing See also:tactics he kept his See also:diocese See also:free from any participation in the Old Catholic See also:schism
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The last four volumes of the second edition of his History of the Councils have been described as skilfully adapted to the new situation created by the Vatican decrees
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During the later years of his life he undertook no further literary efforts on behalf of his church, but retired into See also:comparative privacy
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He died on the 6th of June 1893
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See See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie, vii
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