Thoughts on the Present Position of Protestantism
Overview
This volume, originally a lecture delivered by Adolph Harnack, was put into book form due to the suggestion of a friend with whom he had discussions as to the state of Protestantism in Germany at the time. In seven brief chapters, he lays out the concern that Protestant Germany was headed towards a more legalistic, ritualized, and overly pious way of operating and thinking. Highly controversial at the time that the lecture was given, it was described in a local newspaper as a “radical repudiation of Christianity and of the Christian belief founded on the historical fact of the revelation of God in Christ.” Harnack’s many years of dogmatics study provide an excellent backdrop for this little volume’s analysis of his country’s theological state, and it is a great historical document.
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- Includes Harnack’s argument for the strength of Protestantism
- Provides material well suited for students and pastors
- Discusses the state of Protestantism in Germany in the late 1800s
- Author’s Preface
- Translators Preface
- Introductory
- The Old Protestantism
- The Decline of Theology
- The Catholicizing Movement
- The Threatened Danger
- Counterbalancing Considerations
- Our Duty
- Title: Thoughts on the Present Position of Protestantism
- Author: Adolph von Harnack
- Translator: Thomas Bailey Saunders
- Publisher: Adam & Charles Black
- Publication Date: 1899
- Pages: 84