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Johann Adam MhlerJohann Adam Mhler (May 6, 1796 - April 12, 1838), was a German theologian. He was born at Igersheim in Wrttemberg, and after studying philosophy and theology in the lyceum at Ellwangen, entered the University of Tbingen in 1817. Ordained to the priesthood in 1819, he was appointed to a curacy. He returned to Tbingen where he became privatdozent in 1825, extraordinary professor of theology in 1826 and ordinary professor in 1828. His lectures drew large audiences, including many Protestants. The controversy aroused by his Symbolik (1832) was such that in 1835 he left for the University of Munich. In 1838 he was appointed to the deanery of Wrzburg, but died shortly afterwards. Mhler wrote: - Die Einheit in der Kirche oder das Princip des Katholicismus (Tbingen, 1825)
- Athanasius der Grosse u. d. Kirche seiner Zeit (2 vols., Mainz, 1827)
- Symbolik, oder Darstellung der dogmatischen Gegenstze der Katholiken u. Protestanten nach ihren ffentlichen Bekenntnissschriften (Mainz, 1832; 8th ed., 1871-1872; Eng. trans. by S. B. Robertson, 1843)
- Neue Untersuchungen der Lehrgegenstze zwischen den Katholiken u. Protestanten (1834)
- Gesammelte Schriften u. Aufsatze, edited by Dllinger (1839)
- Patrologie by Reithmayr (1839)
A Biographie by B Wrner was published at Regensburg in 1866. The Symbolik is his most famous work; the interest excited by it in Protestant circles is shown by the fact that within two years of its appearance it had elicited three replies of considerable importance, those namely of FC Baur, PK Marheineke and KI Nitzsch. Although characterized by learning and acuteness, as well as by considerable breadth of spiritual sympathy, it was not accepted by Catholics themselves as embodying an accurate objective view of the doctrine of their church. The liberal school of thought of which Mhler was a prominent exponent was discouraged in official circles, whilst Protestants complain that the author failed to grasp thoroughly the significance of the Reformation as a movement in the spiritual history of mankindand dwells needlessly on the doctrinal shortcomings, inconsistencies and contradictions of its leaders.
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