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Philip Schaff

Disciplines:
theology
history/church history

Summary

Swiss-American theologian and church historian who directed the Ante-Nicene Fathers and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translation series — making patristic texts available in English.

Core Contribution

The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: the standard reference work for Protestant theology in English. Directed the translation series that made the Church Fathers accessible to American Protestant scholars.

Notable Works & Achievements

History of the Christian Church

The Creeds of Christendom

Historical Influences

F.C. Baur

Intellectual Lineage

Protestant Church History

Contemporaries & Peers

Adolf Harnack

Minds Influenced

American Protestant Scholarship

Intellectual Posterity

Patristics in English

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