Erich Schaeder (22 December 1861 – 18 February 1936) was a German Protestant

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

. He studied theology at the universities of

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and

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...

, where in 1891 he qualified as a lecturer. In 1894 he became an associate professor of theology at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussi ...

, and later on, served as a full professor at the universities of

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...

(from 1899) and Breslau (from 1918).Plett - Schmidseder
/ edited by

Walther Killy Walther Killy (26 August 191728 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Göttinge ...

Dictionary of German Biography Schaeder was a leading advocate of theocentric theology. Through his criticism of 19th-century theological

anthropocentrism Anthropocentrism (; ) is the belief that human beings are the central or most important entity in the universe. The term can be used interchangeably with humanocentrism, and some refer to the concept as human supremacy or human exceptionalism. F ...

, he was one of the founders of

dialectical theology In Christianity, Neo-orthodoxy or Neoorthodoxy, also known as theology of crisis and dialectical theology, was a theological movement developed in the aftermath of the First World War. The movement was largely a reaction against doctrines of ...

Selected works

* ''Die Bedeutung des lebendigen Christus fur die Rechtfertigung nach Paulus'', 1891 – The importance of the living Christ for justification to

Paul the Apostle Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

. * ''Die Christologie der Bekenntnisse und die moderne Theologie : zwei Vorträge'' (with

Adolf Schlatter Adolf Schlatter (16 August 1852 – 19 May 1938) was a world-leading Protestant theologian and professor specialising in the New Testament and systematics at Greifswald, Berlin and Tübingen. Schlatter has published more than 400 scholarly and po ...

; 1905) – The

Christology In Christianity, Christology (from the Ancient Greek, Greek grc, Χριστός, Khristós, label=none and grc, wiktionary:-λογία, -λογία, wiktionary:-logia, -logia, label=none), translated literally from Greek as "the study of Chr ...

of confessions and modern theology: two lectures. * ''Das Evangelium Jesu und das Evangelium von Jesus'', 1906 – Jesus the Evangelist and the Gospel of Jesus. * ''Der Moderne Mensch und die Kirche'', 1907 – Modern man and the church. * ''Natur und Christentum : vier Vorträge'' (with Karl Bornhäuser, Wilhelm Lütgert and Georg Lasson; 1907) – Nature and Christianity: four lectures. * ''Schriftglaube und Heilsgewissheit : Vorlesungen'', 1908 – Scripture faith and assurance of salvation: lectures. * ''Theologie und geschichte'', 1909 – Theology and history. * ''Theozentrische Theologie : eine Untersuchung zur dogmatische Prinzipienlehre'' (2 volumes, 1909–14) – Theocentric theology: an investigation into the dogmatic doctrine of principles.Erich Schaeder
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schaeder, Erich 1861 births 1936 deaths People from Goslar (district) University of Greifswald alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of the University of Kiel Academic staff of the University of Breslau Academic staff of the University of Königsberg 19th-century German Protestant theologians 20th-century German Protestant theologians