Albrecht Ritschl

Albrecht Ritschl
Born	(1822-03-25)25 March 1822 Berlin, Prussia
Died	20 March 1889(1889-03-20) (aged 66) Göttingen, German Empire
Nationality	German
Spouse	Ida Rehbeck ​ ​ (m. 1859; died 1869)​
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Halle
Influences	Ferdinand Christian Baur Immanuel Kant Hermann Lotze Martin Luther Friedrich Schleiermacher
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Systematic theology
School or tradition	Tübingen school
Institutions	University of Bonn University of Göttingen
Influenced	Salem Bland Adolf von Harnack Wilhelm Herrmann Julius Kaftan

Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl (25 March 1822 – 20 March 1889) was a German Protestant theologian.

Starting in 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 "revelational-value" of Christ for the community that trusts him as God. He held the Christ's message to be committed to a community.^[1]