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Updated: May 17, 2025
Some would feel that in Ritschl's remedy the loss is greater than the gain. This historical character of revelation is so truly one of the fountain heads of the theology which takes its rise in Ritschl, that it deserves to be considered somewhat more at length. The Ritschlian movement has engaged a generation of more or less notable thinkers in the period since Ritschl's death.
He had escaped, owing chiefly to his isolation from the world, that vast expansion of Ritschlian ideas that during the last century had been responsible for the desertion by so many of any intelligible creed. For others this had been the supreme struggle the difficulty of decision between the facts that words were not things, and yet that the things they represented were in themselves objective.
The historical person, Jesus of Nazareth, is the divine revelation. That sums up this aspect of the Ritschlian position. Some negative consequences of this position we have already noted. Let us turn to its positive significance.
It is long since one could properly speak of a Ritschlian school. It will be long until we shall cease to reckon with a Ritschlian influence. He did yeoman service in breaking down the high Lutheran confessionalism which had been the order of the day. In his recognition of the excesses of the Tübingen school all would now agree.
Its consonance with some of the truths underlying socialism may account, in a measure, for the influence which the Ritschlian theology has had. As was indicated, Ritschl's epoch-making book bears the title, The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation.
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