Richard Adelbert Lipsius


Richard Adelbert Lipsius was a distinguished German Protestant theologian.

Biography

Richard Adelbert Lipsius was the son of K. H. A. Lipsius, who was rector of the school of St. Thomas at Leipzig, was born at Gera on the 14 February 1830. He studied at Leipzig, and eventually settled at Jena as professor ordinaries. He helped to found the "Evangelical Protestant Missionary Union" and the "Evangelical Alliance", and from 1874 took an active part in their management. He died at Jena on 19 August 1892.

Works

Lipsius wrote principally on dogmatics and the history of early Christianity from a liberal and critical standpoint. A Neo-Kantian, he was to some extent an opponent of Albrecht Ritschl, demanding
This, in part, is Lipsius's attitude in Philosophie und Religion. In his Lehrbuch der evangelisch-protestantischen Dogmatik he deals in detail with the doctrines of "God", "Christ", "Justification" and the "Church".
Herausgeber:
From 1875 Lipsius assisted Karl August von Hase, Otto Pfleiderer and Eberhard Schrader in editing Jahrbücher für protestantische Theologie, and from 1885 until 1891 he edited the Theologische Jahresbericht.
His other works include: