Carl Clemen
Carl Christian Clemen (30 March 1865, near Leipzig – 8 July 1940, Bonn), best known as Carl Clemen, was a German theologian and religious historian.[1] He was a member of the history of religions school.
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Carl Clemen
Career
Clemen was Professor of New Testament and religious history at the University of Bonn.[2] He was a critic of the Christ myth theory and refuted the arguments of Arthur Drews, Peter Jensen and other mythicists.[3] He was also critical of the ideas of Anthroposophy and Theosophy.[4]
Clemen has approximately six hundred publications.[5] His brothers were art historian Paul Clemen and historian Otto Clemen.
Selected publications
- Books
- Die religionsgeschichtliche Methode in der Theologie (1904)
- Paulus: Sein Leben und Wirken (1904)
- Religionsgeschichtliche Erklärung des Neuen Testaments (1909)
- Die entstehung des Johannesevangeliums (1912)[6]
- Primitive Christianity and Its Non-Jewish Sources (1912)
- Der Einfluss der Mysterienreligionen auf das älteste Christentum (1913)
- Mysterienreligionen auf das älteste Christentum (1913)
- Die griechischen und lateinischen Nachrichten über die persische Religion (1920)
- Religionsgeschichtliche Erklärung (1924)
- Die Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte (1928)
- Religions of the World: Their Nature and Their History (1931)
- Die Religion der Etrusker (1936)
- Papers
- Clemen, Carl. (1905). Josephus and Christianity. The Biblical World 25 (5): 361–375.
- Clemen, Carl. (1908). Does the Fourth Gospel Depend Upon Pagan Traditions? The American Journal of Theology 12 (4): 529–546.
- Clemen, Carl. (1909). The Revelation of John. The Biblical World 34 (2): 91–103.
- Clemen, Carl. (1916). Buddhistic Influence in the New Testament. The American Journal of Theology 20 (4): 536–548.
References
- Vollmer, U. (2001). Carl Clemen (1865-1940) als Emeritus. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft. 9 (2): 185–204.
- "Christian Carl Clemen". Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- Anonymous. (1916). Primitive Christianity and Its Non-Jewish Sources by Carl Clemen. The Biblical World 48 (5): 309–310.
- Clemen, Carl. (1924). Anthroposophy. The Journal of Religion 4 (3): 281–292.
- Carl Clemen. Encyclopedia of Religion.
- Case, Shirley Jackson. (1913). Review: The Johannine Studies of Clemen and B. Weiss. The American Journal of Theology 17 (2): 288–291.
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