Ritschlian

[ rich-lee-uhn ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–89), who developed a liberal Christian theology and maintained that religious faith is based on value judgments.

noun

1. a supporter of Ritschlian theology.

Other Words From

• Ritschli·an·ism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ritschlian¹

1890–95; Ritschl + -ian

Example Sentences

Pragmatism may be described as the secularising of the Ritschlian system of theological thought.

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“The central position of the pragmatist philosophy and the Ritschlian theology is that truth and usefulness are identical.”

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You understand the Ritschlian theory of value judgments, of course?”

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In separating faith and knowledge the Ritschlian school tends to make subjective feeling the measure of truth and life; while recent psychological experiments in America with the phenomena of faith-healing, hypnotism and suggestion, claim to have discovered hitherto unsuspected potencies of the will.

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The Ritschlian value-judgment theory in its disparagement of philosophy is practically a dethronement of reason.

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