See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
PHILIP See also:SCHAFF (1819-1893)
, See also:American theologian and 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 historian, was See also:born in Chur, See also:Switzerland, on the 1st of See also:January 1819
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He was educated at the gymnasium of See also:Stuttgart, and at the See also:universities of See also:Tubingen, See also:Halle and See also:Berlin, where he was successively influenced by See also:Baur and Schmid, by See also:Tholuck and See also:Julius See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller, by See also:Strauss and, above all, See also:Neander
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In 1842 he was Privatdozent in the university of Berlin, and in 1843 he was called to become See also:professor of church See also:history and Biblical literature in the See also:German Reformed Theological See also:Seminary of Mercersburg, See also:Pennsylvania, then the only seminary of that church in See also:America
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On his See also:journey he stayed six months in See also:England and met See also:Pusey and other Tractarians
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His inaugural address on The Principle of Protestantism, delivered in German at See also:Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and published in German with an See also:English version by J
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W
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See also:Nevin (q.v.), by its Neander-like view that Romanism and Protestantism were only stages in the divinely appointed development of the See also:Christian Church, aroused fierce opposition in the Reformed Church and See also:Schaff was characterized as " Puseyistic " and " semi-papistical "; in 1845 he was tried for See also:heresy and found not guilty by the See also:Synod
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Opposition to him soon died out within his own See also:denomination: it was more particularly directed against his polemic See also:champion, Nevin, and it had its source more in the Dutch (than in the German) Reformed Church, and even there was confined more to the New See also:Brunswick school (i.e. the church-men of the Dutch Reformed Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, New See also:Jersey) and its English and Scottish members, —as See also:late as 1856 J
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J
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Janeway of New Brunswick published his Antidote to the See also:Poison of Popery in the Writings and Conduct of Professors Nevin and Schaff
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Schaff's broad views strongly influenced the German Reformed Church, through his teaching at Mercersburg, through his championship of English in German Reformed churches and See also:schools in America, through his hymnal (1859), through his labours as chairman of the See also:committee which prepared a new See also:liturgy, and by his edition (1863) of the See also:Heidelberg See also:Catechism
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His History of the Apostolic Church (in German, 1851; in English, 1853) and his History of the Christian Church (7 vols., 1858–189o), opened a new See also:period in American study of ecclesiastical history
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After 1864 his See also:home was in New See also:York See also:City, where he was until 1869 secretary of the New York See also:Sabbath Committee (which fought the " See also:continental See also:Sunday "), and was corresponding secretary of the American Evangelical See also:Alliance, of which he was in 1866 a founder
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In 1865 he founded the first German Sunday School in Stuttgart
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In 1862–1867 he lectured on church history at See also:Andover, and after 1869 taught at the See also:Union Theological Seminary—as instructor in church history in 1869–187o, and professor of theological cyclopaedia and Christian symbolism in 1870-1873, of See also:Hebrew and cognate See also:languages in 1873–1874, of sacred literature in 1874–1887, and of church history in 1887–1893
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The English See also:Bible Revision Committee in 1870 requested him to See also:form a co-operating American Committee, of which he became See also:president in 1871
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He died in New York City on the loth of See also:October 1893
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Working with the Evangelical Alliance and the See also:Chicago (1893) See also:World's See also:Parliament of Religions, and in See also:Germany, through the monthly Kirchenfreund, he strove earnestly to promote Christian unity and union; and it was his See also:hope that the See also:pope would abandon the See also:doctrine of See also:infallibility and undertake the See also:reunion of See also:Christianity
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He recognized that he was a " mediator between German and Anglo-American See also:theology and Christianity "; his theology was broad rather than definite, though he sharply dissented. from Nevin's mystical doctrine of the union in the See also:eucharist of the believer with See also:Christ's glorified See also:body as well as His glorified soul
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He edited (1864–188o) the American See also:translation and revision of See also:Lange's Bibelwerk, the See also:great Schaff-See also:Herzog See also:Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge (1884, 3rd ed
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1891); the first seven volumes of the Nicene and See also:Post-Nicene Church Fathers in English (1886–1894); and the See also:International Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament (4 vols., 1899–1883) and the International Revision Commentary (5 vols
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1881–1884), as far as the See also:Epistle to See also:Romans
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His Bibliotheca symbolica ecclesiae universalist the See also:Creeds of Christendom (3 vols
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1877, 6th ed
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1893)was a See also:pioneer See also:work in English in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of symbolics
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His History of the Christian Church, already mentioned, resembled Neander's work, though less See also:biographical, and was pictorial rather than philosophical
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He wrote, besides, See also:biographies, catechisms and hymnals for See also:children, manuals of religious See also:verse, lectures and essays on See also:Dante, &c
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His son, See also:DAVID See also:SCHLEY SCHAFF (1852– ), was professor of church history in See also:Lane Theological Seminary in 1897–1903, and after 1903 in Western Theological Seminary at See also:Allegheny, Pa
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He wrote a Commentary on the See also:Book of Acts (1882) and a See also:Life of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip Schaff (New York, 1897)
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