The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology - Saint Mary ...

Schleiermacher (died 1834), the greatest of the defenders of the union
between the Lutheran and Reformed Churches of Germany. Influencing
all schools, he can be claimed for none. Neander may be classed as
pietistic supranaturalist, De Wette as historico-critical rationalist, Hase as
philosophico-aesthetic rationalist. The chief defenders of the vulgar
rationalism are Röhr, Paulus, Wegscheider, Bretschneider, and Ammon; of
historico-critical rationalism, Winer, Fritzsche, Credner, Schulz, Von
Cölln, Rückert, Gesenius, Tuch, Knobel, Hupfeld, Hitzig,
Ewald,.Bertheau, and Lengerke. The rational supranaturalistic school is
represented by Tzschirner, Tittmann, C. F. K. Rosenmüller, and
Baumgarten-Crusius; supranaturalism proper, or suprarationalism, by E.
G. Bengel, Flatt, Heubner, Augusti, Hahn, Böhmer; pietistic
supranaturalism. by Tholuck (who approached more closely in the course
of his studies to a thoroughly Lutheran position), Hengstenberg,
Olshausen, Stier, Hävernick, Steiger, and Bunsen in his early position,
though in his latest years a rationalist. The representatives of the "new" or
"German" theology, of the school of Schleiermacher, of Lutheran origin,
are Lücke, Nitzsch, Julius Müller, Ullmann, Twesten, Dorner, Liebner, and
Martensen; also Rothe, I. T. Beck, Auberlen, Umbreit, Bleek, H. A. W.
Meyer, Huther, Wieseler, and Tischendorf. The writers of the nineteenth
century whose names we have given are or were within the "Union," and
defenders of it, with a few exceptions.
The representatives of the Lutheran theology, for the most part, in its
strictest sense, are Claus Harms, who struck the first decisive blow at
rationalism (1817), Scheibel, Sartorius, Rudelbach, of Denmark, Guericke,
Harless, Höfling, Thomasius, Philippi, Harnack, Dieckhof, Löhe, Vilmar,
Krabbe,Kliefoth,, Delitzsch, M. Baumgarten, Luthardt, Dreschler, Caspari,
Oehler, Keil, Zöchler, and J. I. Kurtz. Two distinguished jurists, K. F.
Göschel and F. J. Stahl, are to be included among the defenders. of the
Lutheran confession.
Among the names which once took undisputed place in this part of
the roll of honor, are three which have dropped from it, J. C. K. v.
Hofmann, Thiersch, and Kahnis--the last