Ritschlian

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[rich-lee-uhn] / ˈrɪtʃ li ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–89), who developed a liberal Christian theology and maintained that religious faith is based on value judgments.

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noun

1. a supporter of Ritschlian theology.

Other Word Forms

• Ritschlianism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Ritschlian

1890–95; Ritschl + -ian

Example Sentences

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Ritschlian

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.

From Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson

We need not, with the Ritschlian, contemptuously condemn the whole structure of Christian doctrine because undoubtedly it is a development of what was taught by Christ himself.

From Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Hastings Rashdall

The Ritschlian value-judgment theory in its disparagement of philosophy is practically a dethronement of reason.

From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. C. Alexander

It will be long until we shall cease to reckon with a Ritschlian influence.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore

The Ritschlian movement has engaged a generation of more or less notable thinkers in the period since Ritschl's death.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore