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Wolfgang Friedrich Gess
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'''Wolfgang Friedrich Gess''' (also spelled '''Geß''') (* 27 July 1819 in [[Kirchheim unter Teck]]; † 1 June 1891 in [[Wernigerode]]) was a German [[Lutheran]] theologian.
==Life==
Gess was a teacher of theology in Basel from 1850 to 1864. After that, he became Professor of [[Systematic Theology]] in Göttingen, and frpom 1871 in [[Breslau]]. In 1879 he succeeded the deceased General Superintendent in [[Posen]], Friedrich Cranz (1809–1878). Gess entered upon his duties in April 1880 and as [[general superintendent]] of the [[Prussian Union of churches|Old Prussian]], he headed the Church province of [[Province of Posen|Posen]] until 1884. He was succeeded by Johannes Hesekiel, and settled down in Wernigerode.
The historian Felician Gess (1861–1938) was his son.
==Theology==
Gess is known as the main represenative of [[Kenosis]]. His main work was ''The Scripture Doctrine of the Person of Christ.'' (1878–1887). Rejecting the [[Chalcedonian Definition]], he sees Christ's incarnation as a transition from the state of being "self-positing" to the state of "being posited". At conception, [[Logos (Christianity)|Logos]] was united with the body of Jesus, instead of God creating a human soul, as he does with other men. The Logos reduced himself to what was compatible with existence as a human soul. Controversially, Gess thinks that the humanity of Jesus required him to allow his self-consciousness to be extinguished at birth, only to begin to flash through at a certain stage of his physical maturity, and then developing with the goal of [[sanctification]], which is achieved step by step in the choices he freely makes. Furthermore, Gess argues that a change took place in the [[Trinity]] for the duration of the incarnate Logos' earthly life. The Son no longer proceeds from the Father, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone, rather than [[Filioque|from the Father and the Son]].<ref> David Fergusson (Ed.): [https://ift.tt/2Mu0JZl W.F. Gess, Kenosis as the Reduction of the Logos to a Human Soul] in ''The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Theology''. 2010.</ref>
== Works ==
* ''Die Lehre von der Person Christi'' (The Doctrine of the Person of Christ, 1856)
* ''Christi Person und Werk I-III'' (Christ's Person and Work, 1870-77)
==References==
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[[Category:German Lutheran theologians]]
[[Category:19th-century Protestant theologians]]
[[Category:1819 births]]
[[Category:1891 deaths]]
==Life==
Gess was a teacher of theology in Basel from 1850 to 1864. After that, he became Professor of [[Systematic Theology]] in Göttingen, and frpom 1871 in [[Breslau]]. In 1879 he succeeded the deceased General Superintendent in [[Posen]], Friedrich Cranz (1809–1878). Gess entered upon his duties in April 1880 and as [[general superintendent]] of the [[Prussian Union of churches|Old Prussian]], he headed the Church province of [[Province of Posen|Posen]] until 1884. He was succeeded by Johannes Hesekiel, and settled down in Wernigerode.
The historian Felician Gess (1861–1938) was his son.
==Theology==
Gess is known as the main represenative of [[Kenosis]]. His main work was ''The Scripture Doctrine of the Person of Christ.'' (1878–1887). Rejecting the [[Chalcedonian Definition]], he sees Christ's incarnation as a transition from the state of being "self-positing" to the state of "being posited". At conception, [[Logos (Christianity)|Logos]] was united with the body of Jesus, instead of God creating a human soul, as he does with other men. The Logos reduced himself to what was compatible with existence as a human soul. Controversially, Gess thinks that the humanity of Jesus required him to allow his self-consciousness to be extinguished at birth, only to begin to flash through at a certain stage of his physical maturity, and then developing with the goal of [[sanctification]], which is achieved step by step in the choices he freely makes. Furthermore, Gess argues that a change took place in the [[Trinity]] for the duration of the incarnate Logos' earthly life. The Son no longer proceeds from the Father, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone, rather than [[Filioque|from the Father and the Son]].<ref> David Fergusson (Ed.): [https://ift.tt/2Mu0JZl W.F. Gess, Kenosis as the Reduction of the Logos to a Human Soul] in ''The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Theology''. 2010.</ref>
== Works ==
* ''Die Lehre von der Person Christi'' (The Doctrine of the Person of Christ, 1856)
* ''Christi Person und Werk I-III'' (Christ's Person and Work, 1870-77)
==References==
*
[[Category:German Lutheran theologians]]
[[Category:19th-century Protestant theologians]]
[[Category:1819 births]]
[[Category:1891 deaths]]
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