that aroused opposition, but the attitude assumed by him toward the higher critics of the New Testament, his readiness to adopt the most of their theories, and his consequent modification of the doctrine of inspiration, as well as his dissent from the dogma of the Church in respect to the Trinity and the Lord's Supper. Hengstenberg (Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, 1862), with August Wilhelm Dieckhoff and Franz Delitzsch (Für und wider Kahnis, 1863), was prominent among those who now accused Kahnis of apostasy, and Kahnis replied to Hengstenberg in a pamphlet, Zeugniss für die Grundwahrheiten des Protestantismus gegen Dr. Hengstenberg (1862). In 1884 he published the second volume of his Dogmatik, tracing the history of the development of dogma in connection with the history of the Church, to prove the Lutheran doctrines of the present day the logical result of this twofold development. The third volume, Das System, which appeared in 1868, repeated matter contained in the first two volumes, and contradicted the basic principle of investigation laid down in the first part. In 1871 he published at Leipsic a condensation of the historical portion of the work under the title Christentum und Luthertum. After the completion of his Dogmatik, Kahnis devoted himself to historical studies. To this period belong his Deutsche Reformation (Leipzig, 1872) and his Gang der Kirche in Lebensbildern (1887). He died at Leipzig. References External links 1814 births 1888 deaths People from Greiz People from the Principality of Reuss-Greiz German Lutheran theologians Members of the First Chamber of the Diet of the Kingdom of Saxony 19th-century German Protestant theologians 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers 19th-century Lutherans