Adolf von Harnack

…Now that's a provocative title, isn't it? What is Christianity? And it comes over from the German in the sense of what is the essence or the being or the wesen of Christianity? What makes Christianity Christian? What's its core beliefs? To make this analysis, von Harnack came to this conclusion that the message of Christ…

…The sanguine conclusion of these scholars in the 19th century, as I've already mentioned, was at the core, at the essence of world religions, there is this common affirmation of faith. Now one of those works that was written by an outstanding German church historian, perhaps the most important church historian of the last 200 years, Adolf von Harnack, is th…