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JOHANN See also: German See also: Protestant theologian, was of peasant origin and was See also: born at Sonneborn near See also: Elberfeld on the loth of See also: April 1802
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He studied See also: theology at See also: Bonn (from 1822) under K
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I
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Nitzsch and G
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C
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F
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Lucke, held several pastorates, and eventually (1854) settled at Bonn as professor of theology in succession to Isaac A
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See also: Dorner, becoming also in 186o counsellor to the consistory
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He died on the 9th of See also: July 1884
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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
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Lichtenberger)
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As a dogmatic writer he belonged to the school of Schleiermacher
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His Christliche Dognzatik (3 vols., 1849–1852, new edition, 187o) " contains many fruitful and suggestive thoughts, which, however, are hidden under such a mass of bold figures andSee 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, Mark, See also: Revelation
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The Bibelwerk has been translated, enlarged and revised under the general editorship of Dr See also: Philip
See also: Schaff
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