Richard Adelbert Lipsius (14 February 1830 inGera,Thuringia – 19 August 1892 inJena, Thuringia) was a German Protestanttheologian.[1]
Richard Adelbert Lipsius was the son ofK. H. A. Lipsius (d. 1861), who was rector of theschool of St. Thomas atLeipzig, was born atGera on 14 February 1830. He studied at Leipzig, and eventually (1871) settled atJena as professor ordinaries. He helped to found the "Evangelical Protestant Missionary Union" and the "Evangelical Alliance", and from 1874 took an active part in their management. He died at Jena on 19 August 1892.[2]
Lipsius wrote principally on dogmatics and the history of early Christianity from a liberal and critical standpoint. ANeo-Kantian, he was to some extent an opponent ofAlbrecht Ritschl, demanding[2]
a connected and consistent theory of the universe, which shall comprehend the entire realm of our experience as a whole. He rejects the doctrine of dualism in a truth, one division of which would be confined to "judgments of value", and be unconnected with our theoretical knowledge of the external world. The possibility of combining the results of our scientific knowledge with the declarations of our ethico-religious experience, so as to form a consistent philosophy, is based, according to Lipsius, upon the unity of the personal ego, which on the one hand knows the world scientifically, and on the other regards it as the means of realizing the ethico-religious object of its life
This, in part, is Lipsius's attitude inPhilosophie und Religion (1885). In hisLehrbuch der evangelisch-protestantischen Dogmatik (1876; 3rd ed., 1893) he deals in detail with the doctrines of "God", "Christ", "Justification" and the "Church".[2]Herausgeber:
From 1875 Lipsius assistedKarl August von Hase (1800-1890),Otto Pfleiderer (1839-1908) andEberhard Schrader (1836-1908) in editingJahrbücher für protestantische Theologie, and from 1885 until 1891 he edited theTheologische Jahresbericht.[2]
His other works include:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lipsius, Richard Adelbert".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 743. This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Lipsius, Richard Adelbert".The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.{{cite book}}:Check|url= value (help)