Search results
Johann Georg Wilhelm Herrmann (6 December 1846 – 2 January 1922) was a Lutheran German theologian. Career. Hermann taught at Halle before becoming professor at Marburg. Influenced by Kant and Ritschl, his theology was in the idealist tradition, seeing God as the power of goodness.
Wilhelm Herrmann, liberal German Protestant theologian who taught that faith should be grounded in the direct experience of the reality of the life of Christ rather than in doctrine. A disciple of Albrecht Ritschl, he was an important influence on his students Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann.
This chapter examines how systematic theology professor Wilhelm Herrmann developed a theological system based on a form of Kantian epistemology. Kantian philosophy provided Herrmann the context in which to justify his rigorous distinction between the realms of faith and science.
27 de jun. de 2024 · Wilhelm Herrmann remains of importance in present theological debates, particularly those between Bultmann and Barth, two of his most distinguished pupils.
(1846–1922), theologian. In 1879 he became professor of systematic theology at Marburg. Though he regarded the Gospels as in some sense the record of a historical personality, he insisted that the Church should teach only those facts about Christ which will act upon human beings, e.g.
Johann Wilhelm Herrmann was born in 1846 in Melkow, Prussia. His father and maternal grandfather were both pastors. According to the son, Wilhelm’s father “understood Schleiermacher’s theology well, and the religious life of peasant people still better”(R. W. Stewart, 1904).
THE THEOLOGY OF WILHELM HERRMANN: A REASSESSMENT DANIEL L. DEEGAN* WILHELM HERRMANN is impor-tant in present theological debates, particularly those between Bultmann and Barth, two of his most distinguished pupils. Barth's own break with liberal theology was in part a break with his teacher Herr-mann, a rejection of revelation as con-
