Karl Holl

Karl Holl ( born May 15, 1866 in Tübingen, † May 23, 1926 in Berlin) was a professor of theology and church history in Tübingen and Berlin and is considered an important church historian.

Life

Karl Holl studied philosophy and theology at the Evangelical Tubingen. He also joined the fraternity Normannia. During his short Vicariate in Württemberg, he received a doctorate in phil. and in 1891 Repetent at Tubingen. Since 1894, at the instigation of Adolf von Harnack as a graduate assistant at the Prussian Academy of Sciences worked, he habilitated in 1896 at the Berlin Faculty of Theology. In 1901 he was an associate professor of church history in Tübingen, in 1906 he was a full professor in Berlin. On 17 December 1914 he was also admitted as an ordinary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He was also from 1912 to 1926 Ephorus the Protestant Theological Seminary Johanneum in Berlin. His tomb is located on the southwest Stahnsdorf.

Teaching

Karl Holl's theological development is marked by the " Tübingen School " mentioned mindset Ferdinand Christian Baur. He has published numerous studies on Martin Luther, which to this day fundamental importance is attached to. Holl's contributions interpret the Lutheran religion and understanding of God as a " religion of conscience ", setting off a " Luther Renaissance " from. He introduced the so-called doctrine of justification back at the center of theology.

Works

  • The Sacra Parallela of John Damascene, 1897
  • Enthusiasm and Bußgewalt the Greek monasticism, and study to Symeon the New Theologian, 1898
  • Fragments vornicänischer Church Fathers from the Sacra Parallela, 1899
  • Amphilochius of Iconium, in his relation to the great Kappadoziern, 1904
  • The spirit. Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. A psychological study in 1905
  • The doctrine of justification in light of the history of Protestantism, 1906
  • What is the doctrine of justification to modern man to say?, 1907
  • Modernism, 1908
  • John Calvin, speech at the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of Calvin, 1909
  • The manuscript tradition of Epiphanius, 1910
  • Thomas Chalmers and the beginnings of ecclesiastical and social movement, 1913
  • The concept of the Church of St. Paul in his relation to which the early church, 1921
  • Historical Essays on Church History I.: Luther ( 1 What understood Luther Religion 2 of justification in Luther's lectures on Romans with special regard to the issue of assurance of salvation 3 The construction of morality 4 The emergence of Luther's concept of the church? .. . 5 Luther and the sovereign government of the Church. 6 Luther's judgments about themselves 7th Luther and the fanatics. 8 the cultural significance of the Reformation Luther 9th importance for the progress of the art of interpretation ), 1921
  • Augustine's inner development, 1923
  • Early Christianity and History of Religion, 1924
  • The emergence of the four fasts in the Greek Church, 1924
  • Christian speeches, 1926
  • Historical Essays on Church History II: The East, 1927/28,
  • Historical essays on the history of the Church III. , The West, 1928
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