Philip Schaff
Swiss-born, American theologian and ecclesiastical historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philip Schaff was a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and ecclesiastical historian, who spent most of his adult life living and teaching in the United States. Life and career Schaff was born in Chur, Switzerland, and educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgart. At the universities of Tübingen, Halle and Berlin, he was successively influenced by Ferdinand Christian Baur and Schmid, by Friedrich August Tholuck and Julius Müller, by David Strauss and, above all, Johann August Wilhelm Neander. At Berlin in 1841 he took the degree of Bachelor of Divinity and passed examinations for a professorship. He then traveled through Italy and Sicily as tutor to Baron Krischer. In 1842, he was Privatdozent in the University of Berlin, where he lectured on exegesis and ecclesiastical history. In 1843, he was called to become Professor of Church History and Biblical Literature in the German Reformed Theological Seminary of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, then the only seminary of that church in America.
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- History of the Christian church (78)
- Socrates, Sozomenus : Church histories (22)
- St. Augustine's City of God and Christian Doctrine (15)
- Encyclopedia of living divines and christian workers of all denominations in Europe and America (13)
- The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin, with a Sketch of his Life and Work (9)
- Church and state in the United States (6)
- The evangelical protestant creeds, with translations (5)
- Church and state in Germany. (3)
- Ante-Nicene Christianity, A.D. 100-325 (3)
- The evangelical union. (2)
- A religious encyclopædia : or Dictionary of biblical, historical, doctrinal, and practical theology, based on the Real-encyklopädie of Herzog, Plitt, and Hauck (2)
- The Greek and Latin creeds, with translations (2)
- Germany: Its universities, theology, and religion; with sketches of Neander, Tholuck, Olshausen, Hengstenberg, Twesten, Nitzsch, Muller, Ullmann, Rothe, Dorner, Lange, Ebrard, Wichern, and other distinguished German divines of the age. (2)
- A popular Commentary on the New Testament : by English and American scholars of various evangelical denominations (2)
- The universities of Germany. (2)
- St. Athanasius : select works and letters (2)
- The creeds of the Greek and Latin Churches with translations (1)
- St. Basil : letters and select works (1)
- History Of The Christian Church: Modern Crhistianity, The German Reformation (1)
- Göttingen and Leipsic. (1)
- The German Reformation, A.D. 1517-1530 (1)
- Modern Christianity : the Swiss Regormation (1)
- The Friendship of Calvin and Melanchthon (1)
- Platonism and Christianity (1)
- Dante's Theology (0)
- The conflict for religious freedom. (0)
- The evangelical church diet. (0)
- The dissenting sects. (0)
- St. Thomas of Canterbury (0)
- Theological schools and church parties, concluded. (0)
- The analytical reference Bible : containing four valuable aids to the student of the word of God (0)
- The conflict of Unionism and Confessionalism. (0)
- St. Hilary of Poitiers . John of Damascus (0)
- Mediæval Christianity : from Gregory I to Gregory VII, A.D. 590-1073 (0)
- The established churches. (0)
- The skeptical era of Germany. (0)
- Literature and poetry (0)
- Philip Schaff : in part autobiographical (0)
- Halle and Bonn. (0)
- Christ and christianity : studies on christology, creeds and confessions, protestantism and romanism, reformation principles, sunday observance, religious freedom, and christian union (0)
- The revival of evangelical theology and piety. (0)
- The reunion of Christendom : a paper prepared for the Parliament of Religions and the National Conference of the Evangelical Alliance held in Chicago, September and October, 1893 (0)
- Bound Volume of Sermons, Discourses and Addresses, 1850-1868 (0)
- Theological schools and church parties. (0)
- The conflict of Christianity with the latest forms of infidelity. (0)
- Modern Christianity : the German Reformation : A.D. 1517-1530 (0)
- History and results of the church diet. (0)
- The middle ages (0)
- Jena and the Burschenschaft. (0)
- A commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, and Revelation (0)
- The Gospel according to Mark . The Gospel according to Luka (0)
- Lutheranism and reform. (0)
- A commentary on the gospel according to John : critical, doctrinal and homiletical, with special reference to ministers and students (0)
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