15 Facts About Albrecht Ritschl

Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl was a German Protestant theologian.

Albrecht Ritschl held that the Christ's message was to be committed to a community.

Finally, in 1864, Albrecht Ritschl came the influence of Hermann Lotze.

Albrecht Ritschl claimed to carry on the work of Luther and Schleiermacher, especially in ridding faith of the tyranny of scholastic philosophy.

Albrecht Ritschl attempted to demonstrate that Kant's epistemology was compatible with Lutheranism.

Albrecht Ritschl's work made a profound impression on German thought and gave a new confidence to German theology, while at the same time provoking a storm of hostile criticism.

From this vantage-ground Albrecht Ritschl criticizes the use of Aristotelianism and speculative philosophy in scholastic and Protestant theology.

Albrecht Ritschl holds that such philosophy is too shallow for theology.

Albrecht Ritschl appears to confine Metaphysic to the category of Causality.

Albrecht Ritschl must be regarded in His active relationship to the "kingdom", as spiritual personality revealed in spiritual purposiveness.

Albrecht Ritschl's "Righteousness" is Albrecht Ritschl's fidelity to this purpose.

Albrecht Ritschl is the perfect Revelation of God and the Exemplar of true religion.

Albrecht Ritschl's work in founding the kingdom was a personal vocation, the spirit of which He communicates to believers, "thus, as exalted king", sustaining the life of Albrecht Ritschl's Kingdom.

We note here that though Albrecht Ritschl gives Jesus a unique and unapproachable position in His active relation to the kingdom, he declines to rise above this relative teaching.

Albrecht Ritschl is so faithful to the standpoint of the religious community, that he has nothing definite to say on many important questions, such as the relation of God to non-Christians.