Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach

Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach ( born September 29, 1792 in Copenhagen, † March 3, 1862 in Slagelse ) was a German - Danish Lutheran theologian. He is regarded as an important figure for the formation of the Neuluthertums in the 19th century.

Life

As the son of an immigrant from Saxony craftsman in Copenhagen grew, Rudelbach visited the Metropolitanskolen and studied classical languages ​​and Protestant Theology at the University of Copenhagen. In 1822 he received a doctorate in phil. The dissertation on principles of ethics can still influences from Friedrich Schleiermacher recognize. In 1823 he traveled through Germany, France and Switzerland. After his return, he came under the influence of Nikolai Grundtvig. Together, they gave out the 1825-28 Theologisk Maanedskrift to combat Neology and rationalism in all directions and important phenomena scientifically. On the renewal of Lutheranism in the Danish Church Rudelbach also gave out a Danish translation of the Augsburg Confession and the Apology. Through his lectures at the university, he also worked on the young Hans Lassen Martensen.

Since 1827 employees working on the issued by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg Evangelical Church newspaper, Hengstenberg recommended him in 1829 as superintendent and the consistory to Glauchau in which belongs to Saxony Beautifully Freiburgische Rezessherrschaften. In his inaugural sermon in Dresden Rudelbach provoked by the accusation that the rationalist Saxony was a land of the living dead. In the 16 years of its effectiveness in Glauchau Rudelbach did but much, then, to anchor in the Church of Saxony and the revival movement in a smooth transition, the Neukonfessionalismus. These served mainly the Muldenthaler founded in 1831 Pastoral Conference, which was a nucleus of the "General Evangelical Lutheran Conference" (1868 ) which developed into 1947, the Lutheran World Federation. His most important writing Reformation, Lutheranism and Union ( 1839) was devoted to the rejection of the old-Prussian Union. In 1840 Rudelbach was with Ferdinand Guericke out the magazine for the whole Lutheran theology and the church, to which he contributed many essays and reviews to his death. 1841 honored the University of Erlangen Rudelbach with the theological honorary doctorate degrees.

In protest against the required by the consistory abolition of the Apostles' Creed (see his Concerning the importance of Apostolic Creed, Leipzig 1844) appealed to the confirmation, and to the support of the German Catholics Rudelbach 1845 resigned and returned to Copenhagen, where he again Lectures held. However, it came to an open break with Grundtvig, who had meanwhile developed in a more liberal direction. Now numerous writings, he fought Grundtvig's Church reform program. A desired by King Christian VIII permanent position prevented the Faculty of Theology, under the leadership of Henrik Nicolai Clausen, the Rudelbach had been attacked in 1828 in a pamphlet. 1848 Rudelbach pastor in Slagelse. When he referred to in his book on the civil marriage ( Om det borgerlige Ægteskab, 1851) on Søren Kierkegaard, he reacted with a rejection of any political interest.

Writings (selection )

  • De ethices principiis hucusque vulgo traditis ( Diss 1822)
  • De Symbolis ac typis Scripturae sacrae dissertatio inauguralis (1824 )
  • The Augsburg Confession in 1530: historical account of and for the sources (1830 ) ( digitized )
  • The essence of rationalism and the relation thereof to the Christian Church and the Christian State (1830 ) ( digitized )
  • Struggle with the world and peace in Christ: A collection of Christian sermons and homilies (1830 ) ( digitized )
  • Jerome Savonarola and his Time (1835 ) ( digitized )
  • Reformation, Lutheranism and Union ( 1839)
  • The core values ​​of the Catholic Church doctrine and practice peace: polemic resist KH bag in Bonn and FC Baur in Tübingen (1840 )
  • Historical-Critical Introduction to the Augsburg Confession: together with a renewed investigation of the liability of the symbols and commitment to the same (1841 )
  • Official reports on the reintroduction of the catechism exams in the Kingdom of Saxony (1841 )
  • About the importance of Apostolic Creed and the relation of the same to Confirmation (1844 )
  • Theological opinion on the question concerning the Verhältnisz the Baptist church and state, and the same to be granted Freedom of religion: as a contribution to Church History ( 1846)
  • Christelig biography ( 1846-48; German: Christian Biography: Lives of the witnesses of the Christian Church as the plungers on the history of the same, 1849-50 ).
  • The evangeliske Kirkeforfatnings Oprindelse above principle, dens udartning og dens Possible Side Gjenreisning fornemmelig i Danmark (1849 )
  • The Sacrament - words, or, significant pieces of baptism and the Lord's Supper: a historical and critical represented: together with two theological opinion on the Saxon church liturgy of 1812, and over the pericopes System ( 1851)
  • The thing Schleswig -Holstein, volksthümlich, historical and political, constitutional law and ecclesiastical discussed: together with an apology for the teaching and practice of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in terms of obedience to authority, the oath and the intercession for the secular princes ( 1851)
  • Om det borgerlige ægteskab ( 1851)
  • Om sognebaandet og om ordinationens VAESEN (1852 )
  • Kirk epic Tille over evangelierne (1853 )
  • Om begrebet folke kirke. En historisk - Kirkelig betænkning, betræffende the danske, evangelisk - lutherske Circe fremtidige Stilling og til Committed Staten (1854 )
  • Kirkefrihedens elementer i siden the statskirkelige ordning danske og lovgivning 1537 (1854)
  • Om psalmeliteraturen above psalmebogssagen (1856 )
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