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LUTHARDT, lut'htlrt, CHRISTOPH ERNST: German Lutheran theologian; b. at Maroldsweisach

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(55 m. n.n.w. of Nuremberg) Mar. 22, 1823; d. at Leipsic Sept. 21, 1902. He studied theology at Erlangen and Berlin (1841-45) and was teacher in the Munich gymnasium (1847-51). He was privat-docent at Erlangen (1851-54), extraordinary professor at Marburg (1854-56), and ordinary professor of systematic theology and New-Testament exegesis at Leipsic (1856-1902). He became constitutorial councilor (1865) and privy ecclesiastical councilor (1887). Luthardt was a voluminous writer of the Erlangen school of theologians, one of the attractions of the University of Leipsic, an eloquent preacher, and an ecclesiastical statesman. Among his works may be mentioned: Das johanneische Evangelium nach seiner Eigenthümlichkeit geschildert und erklärt (2 vols., Nuremberg, 1852-53, Eng. transl. by C. R. Gregory, 3 vols., Edinburgh, 1865-78); Die Lehre von den letzten Dingen (Leipsic, 1861); Die Lehre vom freien Willen und sein Verhätniss zur Gnade (1883); Apologetische Vorträge über die Grundwahrheitan des Christenthums (1865; Eng. transl., Apologetic Lectures on the Fundamental Truths of Christianity, Edinburgh, 1865); Compendium der Dogmatik (1865); Die Ethik Luthers in ihren Grundzügen (1867); Apologetische Vorträge über die Heilswahrheiten des Christenthums (1867; Eng. transl., Apologetic Lectures on the Saving Truths of Christianity, Edinburgh, 1868); Die Ethik Aristoteles im Unterschied von der Moral les Christenthums (1869); Vorträge über die Moral des Christenthums (1873; Eng, transl., Apologetic Lectures on the Moral Truths of Christianity, Edinburgh, 1873); ***Der johanrudache Ursprung les vierten Evangeliuma (1874; Eng. transl. by C. R. Gregory, St. John the Author of the Fourth Gospel, Edinburgh, 1875); Die modernen Weldanachauungen und ihre praktische Ifoneequenun (1880): Licht and Leben (1885); Die anti)ce Ethik in ihrer peschirhh lichen Entv»ekelung ale Einleitung in die Geschichte der chriah lichen Moral dargeatellt (1887); Geschichte der christlichen Ethik (1888-93; Eng. transl., History of Christian Ethics, Edinburgh, 1889); Die vier Evangelien (1899); Die ehriaUielw Glaubenalehre (1898); and ICompendium der theologischers Efhik (1898). He was editor of the Allgemeine evangelische lutheraniaclae Rirdunzeitung.

Bibliography: J. Kunse, Christoph Ernst Luthardt, Leipsic, 1903; F. J. Winter, Die Theoogie des D. Luthardt, ib.,1883.

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