vol.), and of the Trinity and Incarnation (1841–’43, in 3 vols.), and his masterly vindication of
Protestantism against Möhler’s Symbolik (2d ed. 1836).^30
Karl Rudolph Hagenbach (Professor of Church History at Basel, d. 1874) wrote, in the mild
and impartial spirit of Neander, with poetic taste and good judgment, and in pleasing popular style,
a general History of the Christian Church in seven volumes (4th ed. 1868–’72),^31 and a History of
Christian Doctrines, in two volumes (1841, 4th ed. 1857).^32
Protestant Germany is richer than any other country in, manuals and compends of church
history for the use of students. We mention Engelhardt(1834),Niedner (Geschichte der christl.
Kirche,1846, and Lehrbuch, 1866), Hase(11th ed. 1886),Guericke(9th ed. 1866, 3 vols.),Lindner
(1848–’54),Jacobi(1850, unfinished), Fricke(1850),Kurtz (Lehrbuch, 10th ed. 1887, in 2 vols.,
the larger Handbuch, unfinished), Hasse (edited by Köhler, 1864, in 3 small vols.), Köllner(1864),
Ebrard (1866) 2 vols.),Rothe(lectures edited by Weingarten, 1875, 2 vols.), Herzog(1876–’82, 3
vols.),H. Schmid (1881, 2 vols.). Niedner’s Lehrbuch (1866) stands first for independent and
thorough scholarship, but is heavy. Hase’s Compend is unsurpassed for condensation, wit, point,
and artistic taste, as a miniature picture.^33 Herzog’s Abriss keeps the medium between voluminous
fulness and enigmatic brevity, and is written in a candid Christian spirit. Kurtz is clear, concise,
and evangelical.^34 A new manual was begun by Möller, 1889.
The best works on doctrine history (Dogmengeschichte) are by Münscher, Geiseler, Neander,
Baur, Hagenbach, Thomasius, H. Schmid, Nitzsch, andHarnack (1887).
It is impossible to do justice here to the immense service which Protestant Germany has
done to special departments of church history. Most of the fathers, popes, schoolmen and reformers,
and the principal doctrines of Christianity have been made the subject of minute and exhaustive
historical treatment. We have already mentioned the monographs of Neander and Baur, and fully
equal to them are such masterly and enduring works as Rothe’sBeginnings of the Christian Church,
Ullmann’sReformers before the Reformation,Hasse’sAnselm of Canterbury, and Dorner’sHistory
of Christology.
(b) French works.
Dr. Etienne L. Chastel (Professor of Church History in the National Church at Geneva, d.
1886) wrote a complete Histoire du Christianisme(Paris, 1881–’85, 5 vols.).
Dr. Merle D’aubigné (Professor of Church History in the independent Reformed Seminary
at Geneva, d. 1872) reproduced in elegant and eloquent French an extensive history both of the
Lutheran and Calvinistic Reformation, with an evangelical enthusiasm and a dramatic vivacity
which secured it an extraordinary circulation in England and America (far greater, than on the
Continent), and made it the most popular work on that important period. Its value as a history is(^30) Comp. Landerer’s Worte der Erinnerung an Dr. Baur, 1860, the article: "Baur und die Tübinger Schule," in Herzog and
Plitt "Theol. Encykl.," Vol. II., 163-184 (2d ed.), and R. W. Mackay: The Tübingen School and its Antecedents. London, 1863.
See also Zeller, Vorträge(1865), pp. 267 sqq.
(^31) Portions of Hagenbach’s History have been translated, namely, the History of the Church in the 18 th and 19 th Centuries
by Dr. John P. Hurst (President of Drew Theol. Seminary, Madison, N. J.), N. York, 1869, 2 vols., and the History of the
Reformation by Miss Evelina Moore (of Newark, N. J.), Edinburgh, 1879, 2 vols. A new ed. with literature by Nippold, 1885
sqq.
(^32) English translation by C. W. Buch, Edinburgh, 1846, revised from the 4th ed., and enlarged from Neander, Gieseler, Baur,
etc., by Henry B. Smith, N. York, 1861, in 2 vols.; 6th Germ. ed. byK. Benrath, Leipz. 1888.
(^33) In 1885 Hass began the publication of his Lectures on Ch. Hist., 3 vols.
(^34) English translation from the 9th ed. by J. Macpherson, 1889, 3 vols.
A.D. 1-100.