Paul Drews

Paul Gottfried Drew ( born March 8, 1858 in Eibenstock; † August 1, 1912 in Halle ( Saale) ) was an Evangelical- Lutheran theologian and pastor.

Life

Paul Drews was born in 1858 as son of the merchant August Drews and his wife Alma Zeißig, daughter of a doctor, in the Erzgebirge yew floor. He attended the humanist Thomas School in Leipzig. He studied from 1878 to 1881 Protestant Theology at the University of Leipzig and Göttingen University. During his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Academic Theology connection Thuringia. After completion of studies, he met with a noble job as a tutor in Franconia. In 1892 he was with the work of Peter Canisius, the first German Jesuit to Lic theol. doctorate. In 1883 he became pastor in Burkau and 1889 at St. Luke Archdiakon in Dresden. He was Associate Professor of Practical Theology at the University of Jena and full professor at the University of Giessen and the University of Halle.

He devoted himself to the history of the Reformation (the publishing of Luther's disputations ) in his studies. He also conducted research on the history of the liturgy and of the Protestant Church Studies, which was established by him only within practical theology. In his approach he took on even pulses of the Christian Socialist movement, he of the unhistorical ideas as they had other representatives, distanced (eg Friedrich Naumann: Christ as the archetype of the social reformer ). Drews was co-founder of the church and religion Magazine The Christian World and editor of the collection of the Protestant Church customer.

Today, he is widely regarded as a pioneer of the sociology of religion and the empirical theology.

Honors

1887: Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the Martin- Luther -University Halle -Wittenberg

Writings (selection )

• Peter Canisius, the first German Jesuit, Halle 1892.
• Disputations D. Martin Luther. During the years 1535 to 1545, Hall 1895/96
• Church life of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Kingdom of Saxony, Tübingen 1902.
• For the legislative history of the canon in the Roman Mass, Tübingen 1902.
• The Protestant clergy in the German past, Jena, 1905.
• The problem of practical theology. At the same time a contribution to the reform of theological study, Tübingen 1910.
• Meet the state church to the ideals of Luther? , Tübingen 1911.