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Friedrich Loofs in Halle. Edited by Jörg Ulrich. (New York: DeGruyter. 2010. Pp. x, 349. $140.00. ISBN 978-3-110-24634-6.)
Ulrich has edited a scholarly and lucid collection of essays devoted to the life and work of Friedrich Loofs (1858-1928), a Protestant professor of the history of dogma at Halle University. Loofs was the oldest of eleven children, and his father was a pastor in Hildesheim. He academically matured in a culture permeated by neo-Lutheranism, which he studied in Leipzig. He also was interested in the cultural Protestantism taught by Albrecht Ritschl and the developmental dogma ideas propounded by Adolf Harnack, who was consumed with investigating the origins of early Christian dogma.
A portion of the research on Loofs is based on his archive at Halle, which contains more than 3000 letters that offer reflections on a variety of topics, including the work of his contemporary, Harnack. The...