RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Holland Holste
Belief (1888); Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind- Goldschmidt (in collaboration with W. S. Rockstro 2 vols., 1891); Pleas and Claims for Christ (1892) God's City and the Coming of the Kingdom (1894). Old and New (1900); Personal Studies (1905); and Vital Values (1906). A selected collection of his writings was edited by J. H. Burn under the title Helps to Faith and Practice (London, 1900).
HOLLATZ (HOLLATIUS), DAVID: 1. Lutheran dogmatician; b. at Wulkow, near Stargard (21 m. e.s.e. of Stettin), in Pomerania, 1648; d. at Jakobshagen (15 m. e. of Stargard) Apr. 17, 1713. He studied at Erfurt and Wittenberg, and became preacher at Putzerlin near Stargard in 1670, at Stargard in 1681 (in 1683 also conrector), rector in Colberg in 1684, and pastor in Jakobshagen in 1692. His principal work is his Examen theologicum acroamaticum (Rostock — afterward Stockholm — and Leipsic, 1707; 7th and 8th eds. by Romanus Teller, 1750 and 1763). The work is the last of the strict Lutheran systems of dogmatics. Hollatz knows Pietism, but does not mention it, although he refutes mysticism. The system is divided into qucestiones, which are explained by probationes ; these are followed by antitheses, against which the different instantia are brought forward. Hollatz also published Scrutinium veritatis in mysticorum dogmata (Wittenberg, 1711); Ein gottgeheiligt dreifaches Kleeblatt (Leidender Jesus) (1713) ; a collection of sermons; and other works.
2. Grandson of the preceding, preacher atGiintersberg, near Zachau, in Pomerania from 1730 till his death, June 14, 1771. He wrote devotional books which were much read, often translated, and are still being edited and republished (e.g., Gebahnte Pilgerstrasse nach dem Berge Zion, Basel, 1866; Evangelische Gnadenordnungen, Basel, 1894; Eng. transl., The Order of Evangelical Grace in the Economy of Salvation, London, 1838; Verherrlichung Christi in seinem theueren und unschatzbaren Blute, Basel, 1894). After a controversy between Hollatz and S. J. Baumgarten of Halle the orthodox looked upon him with disfavor. He Bteadily receded more and more from the church doctrines and adopted the views of the Moravians, among whom he found greater sympathy. His Samtliche erbauliche Schriften were published in 2 parts at Gorlitz, 1772-73, and Frankfort, 1782.
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HOLLY, JAMES THEODORE: Protestant Episcopal missionary bishop of Haiti; b. at Washington, D. C, Oct. 3, 1829. His parents were colored Roman Catholics, and he was educated at Washington, New York, Buffalo, and Detroit. At the age of twenty-one he became a convert from the Roman Catholic to the Protestant Episcopal Church, and after being associate editor of The Voice of the Fugitive at Windsor, Ont., from 1851 to 1853, and principal of a public school in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1854, he was ordered deacon in 1855 and ordained priest in the following year. He was then rector of St. Luke's, New Haven, Conn., for five years (1856-61), after which he was a missionary at Haiti (1861-74). In 1874 he was consecrated bishop of Haiti. He
was also consul of Liberia at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from 1864 to 1874.
HOLMES, ROBERT: English Biblical scholar; b. in London 1748 (baptized at St. Martin's-in-the- Fields Nov. 30); d. at Oxford Nov. 12, 1805. He was educated at Winchester College, and at New College, Oxford (B.A., 1770; M.A., 1774; B.D., 1787; D.D., 1789). In 1770 he obtained a fellowship in New College, and subsequently the college rectory of Stanton St. John's, Oxfordshire. He was Bampton lecturer in 1782, and in 1783 he succeeded John Randolph as professor of poetry. He received prebends in Salisbury Cathedral (1790), Hereford Cathedral (1791), and Christ Church, Oxford (1795). He was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1797, and was made dean of Winchester in 1804. He published his Bampton lectures, On the Prophecies and Testimony of John the Baptist, and the Parallel Prophecies of Jesus Christ (Oxford, 1782), and several theological tracts and sermons. Most of tbese writings were included in Treatises on Religious and Scriptural Subjects (1806). His great work, however, was his collation of the text of the Septuagint, Vetus Testamentum Grmcum cum variis lecfionibus (5 vols., 1798-1827 ; see Bible Versions, A, I., 1, § 2). In this important undertaking, to which he devoted the last seventeen years of his life , Holmes was assisted by many scholars in the libraries throughout Europe, and supported financially by the delegates of the Clarendon Press. After his death the work of editing the 142 manuscript volumes of collations, which had been deposited in the Bodleian Library, was completed by James Parsons. During the progress of the work annual reports were published, which are of bibliographical interest.
Bibliography: DNB, xxvii. 197-198; T. H. Home, Introduction to the Holy Scriptures, bibliographical appendix, I., section v., § 2, no. 15, New York, 1867; E. Riehm, Einleitung in das A. T., pp. 501 sqq., Halle, 1890; C. A. Briggs, Study of Holy Scripture, pp. 207 et passim, New York, 1899; H. B. Swete, Introduction to the O. T. in Greek, pp. 185 sqq., Cambridge, 1900.
HOLOFERNES. See Apocrypha, A, IV., 8.
HOLSTE (HOLSTENIUS), LUCAS: German convert from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism in the seventeenth century; b. at Hamburg 1596; d. at Rome Feb. 2, 1661. He was educated in his native city and after 1617 at Leyden, making special studies of the old geographers, and showing a predilection for Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy. Disappointed by his failure to attain a position as teacher in Hamburg, he went in 1622 to England and in 1624 to Paris, where he was made librarian of President de Mesmes, and under Jesuit influence adopted the Roman religion. The change has been explained as due to ulterior motives, but Holste himself ascribed his conversion to personal conviction resulting from his philosophical and theological studies. In 1627 he established himself in Rome, where he found a protector and friend in Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Urban VIII., and received a canonry in St. Peter's. Innocent X. made him librarian of the Vatican, and Alexander VII. a consultor of the Congregation of the Index. He helped to convert prominent Protestants, and was sent to give instructions to Queen Christina of
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