Author:

Philip Schaff

Biography:

Philip Schaff (1819-1893), American theologian and church historian, was born in Chur, Switzerland on the fist of January, 1819. He was educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgart, and at the universities of Tuebingen, Halle, and Berlin, where he was successively influenced by Baur, Tholuck, and Neander. In 1843 he became Professor of Church History and Biblical Literature at the German Reformed Theological Seminary of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. His inaugural address on The Principle of Protestantism, delivered in German at Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and published in German with an English version by J. W. Nevin, was a pioneer work in the field of symbolics.

Books By This Author:

The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel by Wilhelm Julius Schröder
The Books of the Chronicles by Otto J. Zockler
The Epistles General of Peter with the Epistle of Jude by G. F.C. Fronmüller
The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians and Colossians by Karl Braune
Theological Propaedeutic by Philip Schaff
The Acts of the Apostles by Gotthard Victor Lechler
The Gospel according to Luke by J. J. Van Oosterzee
The Gospel according to John by John Peter Lange
The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah by Frederick William Schultz
The Harmony of the Reformed Confessions, as Related to the Present State of Evangelical Theology by Philip Schaff
The Principle of Protestantism by Philip Schaff
The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians by Otto Schmoller
The Book of Esther by Frederick William Schultz
Christ and Christianity by Philip Schaff
The Epistles General of John by Karl Braune
The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians by Karl Braune
The Gospel according to Mark by John Peter Lange
The Epistle General of James by John Peter Lange, J. J. Van Oosterzee
The Books of the Prophet Daniel by Otto Zöckler
The Prophet Isaiah by Carl Wilhelm Eduard Nägelsbach