Heinrich Weinel

Heinrich Weinel was a German Protestant theologian.

Biography

He studied at the universities of Berlin and Giessen, and in 1900 became an inspector of evangelical-theological seminaries in Bonn. From 1904 he was an associate professor at the University of Jena, where in 1907 he became a full professor of New Testament studies. Beginning in 1926 he taught classes in systematic theology at Jena. He was co-founder of the Freien Volkskirche, whose magazine he published from 1919.
During his career, he labored for a popularization of liberal Protestant theology. In his numerous works, Weinel wrote on the history and theology of early Christianity from a "history of religions" perspective.

Selected works

Mašaḥ und seine Derivate; linguistisch-archäologische Studie, 1898 - Mashaḥ and its derivatives: a linguistic-archaeological study.Die Wirkungen des Geistes und die Geister im nachapostolischen Zeitalter bis auf Irenäus, 1899 - The effects of the mind and the spirits in the post-Apostolic period down to Irenaeus. Jesus im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, 1903; translated into English by Alban G. Widgery and published as "Jesus in the nineteenth century and after" Paulus: der Mensch und sein Werk : Die Anfänge des Christentums, der Kirche und des Dogmas, 1904; translated into English by Rev. G. A. Bienemann and edited by Rev. W. D. Morrison, and published as "St. Paul, the man and his work".Ibsen, Björnson, Nietzsche : Individualismus und Christentum, 1908 - Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Friedrich Nietzsche; Individualism and Christianity.Biblische Theologie des Neuen Testaments : die Religion Jesu und des Urchristentums, 1913 - Biblical theology of the New Testament, the religion of Jesus and early Christianity. Die Gleichnisse Jesu. Zugleich eine Anleitung zu einem quellenmäßigen Verständnis der Evangelien, third edition - The parables of Jesus.