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Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg. Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung des kirchlichen Konservatismus im Preussen des 19. Jahrhunderts . By Matthias A. Deuschle . (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 169.) Pp. xiii+662 incl. 6 figs and 1 table. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck , 2013. [euro]119. 978 3 16 151732 7
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Over forty years Old Testament Professor in Berlin and editor of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, Ernst Hengstenberg (1802-69) was the politically powerful leader of the conservative reaction in mid nineteenth-century German theology. This substantial monograph presents him in as favourable light as possible while admitting the weakness of his biblicist theology which rejected Semler's distinction between Scripture and the word of God, a foundation-stone of liberal theology....