PHILIP KONRAD

See also:

• PHILIP KONRAD MARHEINEKE (1780-1846)

MARHEINEKE (1780-1846)  , German Protestant divine, was born at Hildesheim, Hanover, on the 1st of May 1780 . He studied at Gottingen, and in 1805 was appointed professor extraordinarius of philosophy at Erlangen; in 1807 he moved to Heidelberg . In 1811 he became professor ordinarius at Berlin, where from 1820 he was also preacher at Trinity Church and worked with Schleiermacher . When he died, on the 31st of May 1846, he was a member of the supreme consistorial council . At first influenced by Schelling, Marheineke found a new master in Hegel, and came to be regarded as the leader of the Hegelian Right . He sought to defend and explain all the orthodox doctrines of the Church in an orthodox way in the terms of Hegel's philosophy . The dogmatic system that resulted from this procedure was inevitably more Hegelian than Christian; it was in fact an essentially new form of Christianity . Marheineke's developed views on dogmatics are given in the third edition (1847) of his Die Grundlehren der christlichen Dogmatik als Wissenschaft . When he published the first edition (1819) he was still under the influence of Schelling; the second edition (1827) marked his change of view . His works on symbolics show profound scholarship, keen critical insight, and rare impartiality . The Christliche Symbolik (1810-1814) has been pronounced his masterpiece His other works include Institutiones symbolicae (1812; 3rd ed., 1830), Geschichte der deutschen Reformation (1816; 2nd ed., 1831–1834) ; Die Reformation, ihre Entstehung and Verbreitung in Deutsch-land (1846; 2nd ed., 1858), and the posthumous Theol . Vorlesungen (1847-1849) .

See F . Lichtenberger,

History of German Theology (1889) ; A . Weber, Le Sys/elite dogmatique de Marheineke (1857) ; and cf . O . Pfleiderer, Development of Theology in Germany (189o) .