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Ritschlian, a. and n.|ˈrɪtʃlɪən| [f. the name of Albrecht Ritschl, German theologian (1822–89).] A. adj. Of or pertaining to Ritschl or his doctrines. B. n. A follower of Ritschl or a student of Ritschlianism.
1891Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 733/2 The distinguishing feature of the Ritschlian theology is perhaps the eminence it gives to the practical, ethical, social side of Christianity. Ibid. 734/1 The Ritschlians now form a large and important school in Germany. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. p. x/2 For a generation past the influence of the Ritschlian tradition has been far more potent in Scottish theology. 1952Hibbert Jrnl. 1951 L. 12 The Ritschlian contempt for ‘speculative Theism’. Ibid. 15 The Fourth Gospel, with such New Testament epistles as Romans or Ephesians, neglected if not deliberately excluded by Ritschlians in favour of the Synoptists' parables of a ‘Kingdom of God’ to be established here and now. 1957Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 1168/2 The so-called ‘Ritschlian School’ was characterized by its stress on ethics and on the ‘community’, and by its repudiation of metaphysics and religious experience. 1970Evangelical Q. XLII. 95 The last four words tend to nullify the import of the preceding, which as such is the usual Ritschlian explanation; the doctrine of the subjective origin of the thing. Ibid. 99 The Ritschlians were, therefore, strongly opposed to the separation which had been made in traditional theology between the person and work of Christ. Hence ˈRitschlianism, the theological or philosophical doctrines of Ritschl.
1892J. Orr in Thinker Aug. 148 Ritschlianism has a metaphysic, and a specially dangerous one. 1917Bartlet & Carlyle Christianity in Hist. v. v. 596 Ritschlianism and Catholic Modernism are the most marked movements in this direction. 1969D. L. Mueller Introd. Theol. A. Ritschl iii. 105 This idea so crucial for comprehending Ritschl's conception of faith became a kind of watchword of later Ritschlianism. 1970Evangelical Q. XLII. 97 All possibility of speaking of an absolute nature in the Deity as the ground of His historical manifestations is in Ritschlianism swept aside. |