Philip Schaff

The Oldest Church Manual called the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (eBook, PDF)

The Didache and Kindred Documents in the Original, with Translations and Discussions of Post-Apostolic Teaching, Baptism, Worship, and Discipline, and with Illustrations and Facsimilies of the Jerusalem Manuscript

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 311
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781725224032
• Artikelnr.: 60108876

Autorenporträt

Philip Schaff (1819-1893), American theologian and church historian, was born in Chur, Switzerland on the fist of January, 1819. He was educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgart, and at the universities of Tuebingen, Halle, and Berlin, where he was successively influenced by Baur, Tholuck, and Neander. In 1843 he became Professor of Church History and Biblical Literature at the German Reformed Theological Seminary of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. His inaugural address on The Principle of Protestantism, delivered in German at Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and published in German with an English version by J. W. Nevin, was a pioneer work in the field of symbolics.