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

Its consonance with some of the truths underlying socialism may account, in a measure, for the influence which the Ritschlian theology has had.

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

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 Moore, Edward Caldwell

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 Rashdall, Hastings

Pragmatism may be described as the secularising of the Ritschlian system of theological thought.

From Humours of Irish Life by Various

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 Benson, Robert Hugh