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JOHANN See also:PETER See also:LANGE (1802-1884) , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, was of See also:peasant origin and was See also:born at Sonneborn near See also:Elberfeld on the loth of See also:April 1802 . He studied See also:theology at See also:Bonn (from 1822) under K . I . See also:Nitzsch and G . C . F . Lucke, held several pastorates, and eventually (1854) settled at Bonn as See also:professor of theology in See also:succession to See also:Isaac A . See also:Dorner, becoming also in 186o counsellor to the See also:consistory . He died on the 9th of See also:July 1884 . See also:Lange has been called the poetical theologian See also:par excellence: " It has been said of him that his thoughts succeed each other in such rapid and agitated waves that all See also:calm reflection and all rational distinction become, in a manner, drowned " (F . Lichtenberger) . As a dogmatic writer he belonged to the school of See also:Schleiermacher .
His Christliche Dognzatik (3 vols., 1849–1852, new edition, 187o) " contains many fruitful and suggestive thoughts, which, however, are hidden under such a See also:mass of bold figures and See also:strange fancies, and suffer so much from want of clearness of presentation, that they did not produce any lasting effect " (See also:Otto Pileiderer)
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His other See also:works include Das Leben Jesu (3 vols., 1844–1847) Das apostolische Zeitalter (2 vols., 1853-1854), Grundriss der theologischen Fnsyklopadie (1877), Grundriss der christlichen Ethik (1878), and Grundriss der Bibelkunde (1881)
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In 1857 he undertook with other scholars a Theologisch-homiletisches Bibelwerk, to which he contributed commentaries on the first four hooks of the See also:Pentateuch, See also:Haggai, See also:Zechariah, See also:Malachi, See also:Matthew, See also:Mark, See also:Revelation
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The Bibelwerk has been translated, enlarged and revised under the See also:general editorship of Dr See also: |
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