10 April 1802 A.D. Birth: Johann Peter Lange (1802-1884)—Evangelical Lutheran & Defender of the Historical Jesus vis a vis David Strauss
10 April 1802 A.D. Birth: Johann Peter Lange (1802-1884)—Evangelical Lutheran & Defender
of the Historical Jesus vis a vis David Strauss
Johann Peter
Lange (1802 to 1884)
Evangelical
He Stood up
for the Historical Jesus.
Johann Peter
Lange was born in Elberfield, Prussia. He studied at Bonn University, and after
his ordination he pastored from 1825-41. He drew recognition of the evangelical
leaders by the publication of articles revealing his commitment to orthodoxy
over a period from 1830 to 1840. In 1835 D. F. Strauss [1808-1874] published a
view that said that the portrayal of Jesus in the Gospels was not a reliable
record, but "mythical." Lange took a strong stand, and published a
book in 1836 to refute this view, which was beginning to dominate all of German
theology. In 1841 Lange became professor of theology at Zurich (a position
originally offered to Strauss). Here Lange produced a five-volume work,
translated into English in 1864 as The Life of the Lord Jesus Christ. But his
most noted work was a 25-volume commentary on the whole Bible, translated into
English by Philip Schaff.
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