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What is Christianity?

What is Christianity?

by Adolf von Harnack

Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and the most famous church historian of his generation. Professor at Berlin, he traced Christianity's development in his monumental History of Dogma and popularized its 'essence' as the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Our library carries several volumes of his History of Dogma and his Essays on the Social Gospel — primary documents of liberal Protestant scholarship.

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First published
1901
Category
Theology
Length
75k words · about 5 hours
Chapters
18

About this book

Adolf von Harnack's famous Berlin lectures on the essence of Christianity, published in English in 1901. Harnack presents what he took to be the simple core of Jesus's teaching — the kingdom of God, God as Father, and the infinite value of the human soul. A defining statement of liberal Protestant theology.

Contents

  1. Author’s Preface to the English Edition
  2. Translator’s Preface
  3. What is Christianity? · Lecture I
  4. What is Christianity? · Lecture II
  5. What is Christianity? · Lecture III 🔒
  6. What is Christianity? · Lecture IV 🔒
  7. What is Christianity? · Lecture V 🔒
  8. What is Christianity? · Lecture VI 🔒
  9. What is Christianity? · Lecture VII 🔒
  10. What is Christianity? · Lecture VIII 🔒
  11. What is Christianity? · Lecture IX 🔒
  12. What is Christianity? · Lecture X 🔒
  13. What is Christianity? · Lecture XI 🔒
  14. What is Christianity? · Lecture XII 🔒
  15. What is Christianity? · Lecture XIII 🔒
  16. What is Christianity? · Lecture XIV 🔒
  17. What is Christianity? · Lecture XV 🔒
  18. What is Christianity? · Lecture XVI 🔒

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