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RICHARD ADELBERT LIPSIUS (183o-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 743 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD ADELBERT See also:LIPSIUS (183o-1892)  , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, son of K . H . A . See also:Lipsius (d . 1861), who was See also:rector of the school of St See also:Thomas at See also:Leipzig, was See also:born at See also:Gera on the 14th of See also:February 183o . He studied at Leipzig, and eventually (1871) settled at See also:Jena as See also:professor ordinarius . He helped to found the " Evangelical Protestant Missionary See also:Union " and the " Evangelical See also:Alliance," and from 1874 took an active See also:part in their management . He died at Jena on the 19th of See also:August 1892 . Lipsius wrote principally on dogmatics and the See also:history of See also:early See also:Christianity from a liberal and See also:critical standpoint . A Neo-Kantian, he was to some extent an opponent of Albrecht See also:Ritschl, demanding " a connected and consistent theory of the universe, which shall comprehend the entire See also:realm of our experience as a whole . He rejects the See also:doctrine of See also:dualism in a truth, one See also:division of which would be confined to ` judgments of value,' and be unconnected with our theoretical knowledge of the See also:external See also:world . The possibility of combining the results of our scientific knowledge with the declarations of our ethico-religious experience, so as to See also:form a consistent See also:philosophy, is based, according to Lipsius, upon the unity of the See also:personal ego, which on the one See also:hand knows the world scientifically, and on the other regards it as the means of realizing the ethico-religious See also:object of its See also:life " (See also:Otto See also:Pfleiderer) .

This, in part, is his attitude in Philosophic and See also:

Religion (1885) . In his Lehrbuch der evang.-prot . Dogmatik (1876; 3rd ed., 1893) he deals in detail with the doctrines of " See also:God," " See also:Christ," " See also:Justification " and the " See also:Church." From 1875 he assisted K . See also:Hase, O . Pfleiderer and E . See also:Schrader in editing the Jahrbiicher See also:fur prot . Theologie, and from 1885 till 18g1 he edited the Theol . Jahresbericht . His other See also:works include See also:Die Pilatusakten (1871, new ed., 1886), Dogmatische See also:Bel/rage (1878), Die Quellen der altesten Ketzergeschichte (1875), Die apokryphen A postelgeschichten (1883-189o), Hauptpunkle der christl . Glaubenslehre See also:im Umriss dargestellt (1889), and commentaries on the Epistles to the See also:Galatians, See also:Romans and See also:Philippians in H . J . See also:Holtzmann's llandkommentar zum Neuen Testament (1891-1892) .

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