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Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack (born Harnack; 7 May 1851 – 10 June 1930) was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent Church historian. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912 (in which he is sometimes credited as Adolf Harnack ).
Adolf von Harnack (born May 7, 1851, Dorpat, Estonia, Russian Empire [now Tartu, Estonia]—died June 10, 1930, Berlin, Germany) was a German theologian and historian; he was recognized also for his scientific endeavours. In such seminal works as The History of Dogma (1886–89; 4th ed. 1909) and The History of Ancient Christian Literature ...
- Wilhelm Pauck
Adolf von Harnack (May 7, 1851 – June 10, 1930), was a German theologian and prominent church historian who pioneered the effort to free Christianity from what he called its "acute Hellenization" that had happened through the early church's development in the Roman Empire.
Along with Troeltsch (1865-1923), Adolf von Harnack was the foremost German proponent of a liberal theological program, and one of the most provocative and prolific theologians of his time. His influential studies of early Christianity and Christian dogma called for a historical-critical method, independent of meta-historical sources of ...
Adolf von Harnack thought that the only way to nurture Christian faith was to remain in the condition of permanent uncertainty. No student of theology, he believed, should be spared a profound crisis; the worst condition is not when one has doubts about theology or authority, but when one is trapped in the sponginess of mind and indifference.
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May 23, 2018 · Harnack, Adolf Von (1851–1930). Christian theologian and historian. He gained his doctorate from Leipzig in 1873, and after a short period (1886–9) as professor at Marburg, he moved to Berlin where he remained until his retirement in 1921.
As an advocate of science management, Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930) was among the pioneers of modern science policy. Although Harnack began his theological students in 1888 as Professor of Church History at the University of Berlin, he was also committed to reforming the German science system.
