Editing Albrecht Ritschl (section)

==Biography==
Ritschl was born in [[Berlin]].  His father, [[Carl Ritschl|Georg Karl Benjamin Ritschl]] (1783–1858), became  in 1810 a pastor at the church of [[St. Mary's Church, Berlin|St Mary in Berlin]], and from 1827 to 1854 was general superintendent and [[Pomeranian Evangelical Church|evangelical bishop of Pomerania]]. Albrecht Ritschl studied at [[university of Bonn|Bonn]], [[university of Halle|Halle]], [[university of Heidelberg|Heidelberg]] and [[university of Tübingen|Tübingen]]. At Halle he came under [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegelian]] influences through the teaching of [[Julius Schaller]] and [[Johann Eduard Erdmann|Johann Erdmann]]. In 1845 he became a follower of the [[Tübingen school]], and in his work ''Das Evangelium Marcions und das kanonische Evangelium des Lukas'', published in 1846 and in which he argued that the [[Gospel of Luke]] was based on the apocryphal [[Gospel of Marcion]],{{sfn|Herbermann|1913}} he appears as a disciple of the Hegelian New Testament scholar [[Ferdinand Christian Baur|Ferdinand Baur]]. This did not last long with him, however, for the second edition (1857) of his most important work, on the origin of the [[Old Catholic Church]] (''Die Entstehung der alt-katholischen Kirche''), shows considerable divergence from the first edition (1850), and reveals an entire emancipation from Baur's method.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=367}}

[[Image:Ritschl Christliche Lehre von der Rechtfertigung.JPG|thumb|200px|The first volume of Ritschl's ''Christliche Lehre von der Rechtfertigung und Versöhnung'']]
Ritschl was professor of theology at Bonn (extraordinarius 1852; ordinarius 1859) and [[university of Göttingen|Göttingen]] (1864; ''Consistorialrath'' also in 1874), his addresses on religion delivered at the latter university showing the impression made upon his mind by his enthusiastic studies of [[Immanuel Kant]] and [[Friedrich Schleiermacher]]. Finally, in 1864, Ritschl came the influence of [[Hermann Lotze]]. He wrote a large work on the Christian doctrine of justification and atonement, ''Die Christliche Lehre von der Rechtfertigung und Versöhnung'', published during the years 1870–1874, and in 1882–1886 a history of pietism (''Die Geschichte des Pietismus''). His system of theology is contained in the former. He died at [[Göttingen]] in 1889. His son, [[Otto Ritschl (theologian)|Otto Ritschl]], was also a theologian.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=367}}