20
October 1802 A.D. Mr. (Rev.
Dr. Prof.) Wilhelm Ernst Hengstenberg was born.
One of the "heavy hitters" in 19th century
Old Testament scholarship. Although Mr. (Dr. Prof.) Hengstenberg read and
understood Mr. Schleiermacher’s Glaubenslehre,
Mr. Hengstengberg said, "I shall never betake myself to him." This rebuff of Mr. Schleiermacher by Mr.
Hengstenberg, reminds me of Mr. Karl
Barth’s rebuff as well. Mr. Barth purchased each semester a bust of Mr.
Schleiermacher. At the end of the semester full of attacks on Mr.
Schleiermacher by Mr. Barth, he would wave his hand, hit the bust, and dash the
bust into small pieces on the floor. Perhaps we'll review Mr. Schleiermacher,
but for now, a few notes, musings and engagements with this scholarly OT
Churchman, a Confessional Lutheran.
Finding himself without the means to
complete his theological studies under Johann August
Wilhelm Neander and Friedrich August
Tholuck in Berlin, he accepted a post at Basel as tutor in Oriental languages to Johann Jakob Stähelin ( 1797–1875 ),
later a professor at the university. It was that he began to direct his
attention to a study of the Bible, which led him to a
conviction, not only of the divine character of evangelical religion, but also
of the unapproachable adequacy of its expression in the Augsburg Confession. In 1824 he joined the philosophical faculty of the University of Berlin as a Privatdozent, and in 1825 he became a licentiate in theology,
his theses being remarkable for their evangelical fervor and for their emphatic
protest against every form of "rationalism", especially in questions of Old
Testament criticism.
In 1826 he became professor
extraordinarius in theology; and in July 1827 took on the editorship of the Evangelische
Kirchenzeitung, a strictly orthodox journal, which in his hands acquired an
almost unique reputation as a controversial organ. It did not become well-known
until in 1830 an anonymous article (by Ernst Ludwig von
Gerlach) appeared, which openly charged Wilhelm
Gesenius and Julius Wegscheider
with infidelity and profanity, and on the ground of these accusations advocated
the interposition of the civil power, thus giving rise to the prolonged Hallische
Streit. In 1828 the first volume of Hengstenberg's Christologie das
Alten Testaments passed through the press; in the autumn of that year he
became professor ordinarius in theology, and in 1829 doctor of theology.
Main
works
Plaque
with dates of the family Hengstenberg in Neuruppin-Radensleben, Brandenburg,
Germany.
- Christologie des Alten Testaments (1829–1835; 2nd ed., 1854–1857; Eng. trans. by R Keith, 1835–1839,
also in Clark's Foreign Theological Library, by T Meyer and J
Martin, 1854–1858), a work of much learning the estimate of which varies
according to the hermeneutical principle of the individual critic
- Beiträge zur Einleitung in das
Alte Testament (1831–1839); Eng. trans., Dissertations
on the Genuineness of Daniel, and the Integrity of Zechariah
(Edin., 1848), and Dissertation on the Genuineness of the Pentateuch
(Edin., 1847), in which the traditional view on each question is strongly
upheld, and much capital is made of the absence of harmony among the
negative
- Die Bücher Moses und Aegypten (1841)
- Die Geschichte Bileams u. seiner
Weissagungen (1842; translated along with the
Dissertations on Daniel and Zechariah)
-
- Commentar über die Psalmen (1842–1847; 2nd ed., 1849–1852; Eng. trans. by P Fairbain and J
Thomson, Edin., 1844–1848), which shares the merit and defects of the Christologie
- Die Offenbarung Johannis erläutert (1849–1851; 2nd ed., 1861–1862; Eng. trans. by P. Fairbairn also in
Clark's " Foreign Theological Library," 1851-1852)
- Das Hohe Lied ausgelegt (1853)
- Der Prediger Salomo ausgelegt (1859)
- Das Evangelium Johannis erläutert (1861–1863; 2nd ed., 1867-1871 Eng. trans., 1865)
- Die Weissagungen das Propheten
Ezechiel erläutert (1867–1868).
Of minor importance are:
- De rebus Tyrioruz commentatio
academica (1832)
- Uber den Tag des Herrn (1852)
- Da Passe, ein Vortrag (1853)
- Die Opfer der heiligen Schrift (1859)
Several series of papers also, as, for
example:
- "The Retentio of the
Apocrypha,"
- "Freemasonry" (1854)
- "Duelling" (1856)
- "The Relation between the
Jews and the Christian Church" (1857; 2nd ed., 1859), which
originally appeared in the Kirchenzeitung, were afterwards printed
in a separate form.
Posthumously published:
- Geschichte des Reiches Gottes
unter dem Alten Bunde (1869–1871)
- Das Buch Hiob erläutert (1870–1875)
- Vorlesungen über die
Leidensgeschichte
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