KRUMMACHER
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KUFIC WRITING
(Berl. 1866, 8vo; traiisl. into English and published by- Clark of Edinb. and Harpers of N. Y. 1S70, ll'mo).
Like his father and uncle, Dr. Kriunmacher was one of the few liold and uncompromising witnesses of evangelical truth of which (Jcrmany can boast. Dr. Schatt'. who of all men this side the Atlantic is perhaps best entitled to a comment on the life and labors of this celebrated German preacher, speaks of him as follows : " Krummacher was endowed with every gift that con- stitutes an orator, a most fertile and brilliant imagina- tion, a vigorous and original mind, a glowing heart, an extraorduiary facility and felicity of diction, perfect fa- miliarity with the Scriptures, an athletic and command- ing presence, and a powerful and melodious voice, which, however, in latter years underwent a great change, and sounded like the rolling of the distant thunder or like the trumpet of the last judgment. This splendid outfit of nature, which attracted even theatrical actors and mere worshippers of genius to his sermons, was sancti- fied by divine grace, and always uncompromisingly de- voted to the defence of scriptural truth. He was full of the fire of faith and the Holy Ghost, In the pulpit he was as bold aiid fearless as a lion, at home as gentle and amiable as a lamb. Like all truly great men, he had a childlike disposition. ... He was a millionaire in images and illustrations. There is an emharras de richesse in hie sermons, even more than those m Jeremy Taylor. The imaginative is too predominant for simple and severe taste ; but with all their defects they will live as long as sermons are read for private devotion and as models for cultivating a higher style of pidpit eloquence. The name of their author will always shine as one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of those great and good men who, in the present century, have fought the good fight of the evangelical faith against prevail- ing Rationalism and infidelity, and have entitled them- selves to the gratitude of the present and future gener- ations" (The Observer, N. Y. Feb. 4, 18G9). His Atifobi- ographij, left in MS. form, was published after his death by his familv, and has been translated into English by the Itev. M. G. Easton (Edinb. and N. Y. 1869, 8 vo). See a very pleasant short sketch by professor C. W. Bennett, in the N. Y. Christian A di-ocnte, Feb. 11, 1869 ; and Meth. Qiiar. Review, 1869, p. 142, 441 ; 1870, p. 161 sq.; Uritisk and For. Ev. Rev. Ixix, 628 ; A mcr. Fresh. Rev. 1869, p. 776 ; Evcmr/. Qucir. Rev. 1870, p. 149 ; Frincefon Rev. 1870, p. 156. ( J. H. W.)
Krummacher, Gottfried Daniel, a German theologian, younger brother of F. A. Krummacher (q. v.), was born at Tecklenburg April 1, 1774. He studied at Duisinirg, and became successively pastor of Biirth and Wdlfratli, and finally of Elberfeld, where he died Jan. r)0, 1S37. He was thoroughly Calvinistic, not only in his tone of mind, but even in his outward aspect, and as the head of the Pietists in his district he carried their principles to their full length, even showing much unfriendliness to those who did not coincide with him. He \vrote Die Wandeninr/ Israels durch d. Witstc (3d ed. Elberfeld, 1850-51, 2 vols.; Engl., Lond. 1837-38, 2 vols. 12mo) ■.—Ihinspostille (jMenns, 1835) : — TcirjUches Manna (Elberfeld, 1838; 4thed.l851; Engl., Loud. 1839, 12mo): —Jakob\i Kampfu.Sief/ (1829; Engl.,Lond. 1838, 12mo); etc. See A. W. MciUer, F. .U'Krunmutcher's Leben (Bre- men, 1849), i, 169; ii,84; Y.\.Kr\i3;,Krif.Gesch.d.pro- test.-reliff. Schwdnnerei, etc., im lIi-r::o<ith inn Berg (Elber- feld, 1851) ; Krummacher (Emil W'ilhclm), Leben v. Gott- fried Daniel Krummacher (Elberf. 1S3S, 8vo); Autobi- ography of F. W. Krummacher (translated by Easton), p. 155; Herzog, Real-FncyLlop. viii, 118 sq.
Kmmmendyk, Ai.heut, a learned German theo- logian, tiourishcd about the middle of the loth -century as bishop of Holstein and Lubeck, and died in 1489. He left in AIS. form Chronicon Kpiscoporum Oldenburgien- sium et Lnbecensium (printed in Meiboraius's Scriptores Rerum Germanicurum, torn, ii ).
Krusius, L. A. See Millennium.
Kryptae {Kr>inTTai,cnjpts). For the purpose of con- cealment from their ])ersecutors, the earlv Christians occasionaEy prepared for themselves churches and ora- tories under ground, which served both as places of de- votion and as sepulchres for their dead. These were called cnjptce, from Kpinrrw, to conceal. — Farrar, Fecks. Diet. See Crypt.
Kryptics, a name sometimes given to those theo- logians who hold to the K-pinpic, or concealment theory of our Lord's divine attributes during his earthly^ career. See Kenosis.
Ktistolatrae (icorshiiipers of a a-cafed thing), a branch of the Jlonophysites, who maintained tliat the body of Christ before his resurrection was corruptible, in contradistinction from the A ctistetce, who held that it was not created.
Kiibel, Matiiaus, a German theologian, was born at Herbstein, in tlie duchy of Fulda, Nov. 14, 1742, and Avhen twenty-two years old entered the order of the Jesuits, mider whom he received his subsequent educa- tion. In 1783 he became professor of mathematics at Heidelberg University, and in 1785 was appointed to the chair of canon law. He died Jan. 3, 1809. Kiibel was ([uite liberal in tendency, and had many warm friends among Protestant theologians. He wrote Ratio Jidei reddita (Heidelb. 1776, 4to) : — Exercitiuni canoni- cnm de mairimonio (1786, 4to). — Doring, Gelehrfe Theo- log. Deutschlunds des 18'"' und 19"» Jahrh. ii, 212.