Albrecht Ritschl

Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl (25 March 182220 March 1889) was a German Protestant theologian.

From 1852, Ritschl lectured on systematic theology. According to this system, faith was understood to be irreducible to other experiences, beyond the scope of reason. Faith, he said, came not from facts but from value judgments. Jesus' divinity, he argued, was best understood as expressing the "revelational value" of Christ for the community that trusts in him as God. He held that the Christ's message was to be committed to a community. Provided by Wikipedia