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Philip Schaff was born on January 1, 1819 in Chur, Switzerland.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Philip Schaff was a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and a historian of the Christian church, who, after his education, lived and taught in the United States. Schaff's broad views strongly influenced the German Reformed Church, through his teaching at Mercersburg, through his championship of English in German Reformed churches and schools in America, through his hymnal (1859), through his labours as chairman of the committee which prepared a new liturgy, and by his edition (1863) of the Heidelberg Catechism. His History of the Apostolic Church (in German, 1851; in English, 1853) and his History of the Christian Church (7 vols., 18581890), opened a new period in American study of ecclesiastical history.
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St. Augustine is acknowledged on all hands to be one of the greatest and best men that adorn the history of the Christian Church. The piety of his tender years, the theoretical and practical aberrations of his youth and early manhood, his wanderings through the wilderness of heresy and scepticism, his constant burning thirst after God, the only true and living God, his painful mental and moral conflicts in the search of truth and peace, his striking and thorough conversion, his commanding position as a bishop and divine, his invaluable services to the Church of his age, the number, character, and influence of his writings upon the later fathers, the schoolmen and mystics of the Middle Ages, the Reformers of the sixteenth, and the Jansenists of the seventeenth century, and the veneration in which he is still held to this day both by the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Church:all this clothes his life with a peculiar interest, not only to the professional theologian, but also to every intelligent Christian. A faithful, clear, and popular account of such a man is still a desideratum in our literature. The biography, which we here present to the public, is conscientiously derived from the original sources, especially Augustine's own "Confessions," one of the most edifying books ever written; but to make it accessible to the general reader, we have omitted the critical apparatus, and all those minute expositions of his philosophical and theological system, which are only interesting to the learned divine. May the Lord bless this humble sketch of one of His most devoted and useful servants, to the benefit of His people!
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Philip Schaff was born on January 1, 1819 in Chur, Switzerland.
Schaff was educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgart, and at the universities of Tubingen, Halle and Berlin, where he was successively influenced by Baur and Schmid, by Tholuck and Julius Muller, by Strauss and, above all, Neander.
In 1842 he was Privatdozent in the university of Berlin, and in 1843 he was called to become ptofessor of church history and Biblical literature in the German Reformed Theological Seminary of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, then the only seminary of that church in America.
In 1841 Schaff 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 church 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. On his journey he stayed six months in England and met Pusey and other Tractarians.
In 1865 Schaff founded the first German Sunday School in Stuttgart.
He recognized that he was a "mediator between German and Anglo-American theology and Christianity"; his theology was broad rather than definite, though he sharply dissented from Nevin's mystical doctrine of the union in the eucharist of the believer with Christ's glorified body as well as His glorified soul.
Schaff edited (1864 - 1880) the American translation and revision of Lange's Bibelwerk, the great Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge (1884); the first seven volumes of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers in English (1886 - 1894); and the International Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament (4 vols. , 1879 - 1883) and the International Revision Commentary (1881 - 1884), as far as the Epistle to Romans.
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Schaff and Nevin, cosponsoring the "Mercersburg theology, " challenged several popular Protestant attitudes in the United States, particularly hatred of Roman Catholicism, belief that the Reformation marked a radical break from the Christian past, and fondness for revivalistic enthusiasm over organic growth.
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