AND THE NEW TESTAMENT BY JOHANNES KUNZE, PH.D., TH.D., Professor of Practical Theology, University of Greifswald, Authorized Translation from the German BY GEORGE WILLIAM GILMORE FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY Printed in the United States of America Τ TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE HE author of this little volume was born at Dittmansdorf, Saxony, Aug. 31, 1865. He received his education at the universities of Leipsic and Erlangen; taught in secondary schools at Annaberg and Dresden; became assistant university preacher at Leipsic in 1892, where he entered the faculty as privat-docent in 1894, becoming associate professor of the history of doctrine in 1899; in 1903 he went as full professor to the University of Vienna, whence he was called in 1905 to his present position as professor of doctrinal and practical theology in Griefswald. His studies and writings have been largely directed to the history of the Apostles' Creed, as is shown by the titles of his works frequently cited in the present 257097 volume. He has also written a biography of his colleague, the eminent Professor C. E. Luthardt, and monographs on the deity of Christ and the doctrine of justification. The present work, for which his previous studies have so well equipped him, was occasioned by the very insistent attempts made by extreme "liberal theologians" of Germany to have the Creed omitted from ecclesiastical and ritual usage. The results which he reached are novel in one respect, in that instead of deriving the Creed from the New Testament, he regards it, in essence and partly in form, anterior to the earliest document contained in that body of writings, indeed in numerous cases controlling the form of expression therein. While there is in the United States no such polemic need for a work like this as exists in Germany, the painstaking study and the very interesting issue to which the book comes will, it is hoped, justify the publication. |