Review of Dogma's Defender, Theological Tractates by Erik Peterson

Dogma's Defender Theological Tractates BY ERIK PETERSON EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL J. HOLLERICH STANFORD, 296 PAGES, $24.95 Germany's most famous convert from Protestantism to the Catholic Church between the two world wars, Erik Peterson was also one of the most gifted theologians of his generation and, though Pope Benedict XVI has long been a student of his works, one of the least acknowledged. Discussing the future of the Protestant churches in Germany after World War I, and applying the lesson of the early Church, Peterson challenged the great historian and imperial apologist Adolf von Harnack in an exchange.

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Author Reinhard Hütter Divinity School