Author: Albrecht Ritschl

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Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 9781331145387

Excerpt from The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation There is reason to believe that an English translation of Ritschl'8 greatest work is not inopportune at the present moment The attention paid in Britain to this theologian's doctrinal system has been steadily deepening for some years. Such works as Denney's Studies in Theology, Orr's The llitschlian Theology and the Evangelical Faith, and Game's The Ritschlian Theology, are enough to prove how profound is the interest felt here in the methods and conclusions of a movement which has had so remarkable an influence in Germany. Of this movement the primary source was Ritschl's monumental work, The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation (1870-1874). Not since Schleiermacher published his Christliche Glaube in 1821 has any dogmatic treatise left its mark so deeply upon theological thought in Germany and throughout the world. Schleiermacher's masterpiece, unfortunately, is inaccessible to the English reader; and it was felt that were the magnum opus of his most notable successor also to remain untranslated, the loss to English students of theology would be doubly regrettable. The first volume of the German work, containing the history of the doctrine, was published in an English rendering as far back as 1872. The third volume, of which a translation is now furnished for the first time, has the supreme interest of presenting us with Ritschl's own theological system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.