RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Keator Keim
KEDNEY, JOHN STEINFORT: Protestant Episcopal; b. at Bloomfield, N. J., Feb. 12, 1819. He was educated at Union College (A.B., 1838) and General Theological Seminary (1841). He was ordered deacon in 1841 and priested in 1843. After being a missionary in North Carolina from 1842 to 1845, he was rector of St. John's, Salem, N. J. (1847-52), Bethesda, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (1852-59), Trinity, Society Hills, S. C. (1859-65), Trinity, Potsdam, N. Y. (1865-70), and Trinity, Camden, S. C. (1870-71). Since 1871 he has been professor of divinity in Seabury Divinity School, Faribault, Minn., although advancing years have compelled him to retire from active work. He has written: Catawba River, and Other Poems (New York, 1846); The Beautiful and the Sublime (1884); Hegel's ^Esthetics (Chicago, 1886); Christian Doctrine Harmonized (2 vols., New York, 1888); Mens Christi (1890); and Problems in Ethics (1900).
KEDRON. See Kideon.
KEENE, JAMES BENNETT: Church of Ireland, bishop of Meath; b. at Dublin Oct. 25, 1849. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1871), and was ordered deacon in 1872 and ordained priest in the following year. He was curate of St. Matthias, Dublin (1872-74), diocesan curate of Meath (1874-77), Y. M. C. A. chaplain at Dublin (1877- 1879), incumbent of Ballyboy (1879), and rector of Navan (1879-97). In 1897 he was consecrated bishop of Meath. He has been examining chaplain to the bishop of Meath (1885-94), prebendary of Tipper and canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1892-97), and rural dean of Skryne (1896- 1897).
KEENER, JOHN CHRISTIAN: Methodist Episcopal (South) bishop; b. at Baltimore, Md., Feb. 7, 1819. He was graduated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1835, and, after being engaged in business for six years, entered the ministry of his denomination in 1841. For the next seven years he was pastor of churches in Alabama, and from 1848 to 1861 was pastor at New Orleans, being also presiding elder in 1858 and 1860. He was then superintendent of the chaplains attached to the Confederate Army west of the Mississippi until 1864, when he returned to New Orleans as presiding elder and editor of the New Orleans Christian Advocate. In 1870 he was elected bishop. In 1873 he established a Methodist Episcopal mission in Mexico. He has written: The Post Oak Circuit (Nashville, Tenn., 1857); Studies of Bible Truths (1899); and The Garden of Eden and the Flood (1900).
KEIL, kail, KARL AUGUST GOTTLIEB: German theologian; b. at Grossenhain (19 m. n.n.w. of Dresden), Saxony, Apr. 23, 1754; d. at Leipsic Apr. 22, 1818. Left an orphan at an early age, he was adopted by an uncle in Leipsic in 1763, and studied at the university of that city. In 1785 he was appointed assistant professor of philosophy; became assistant professor of theology two years later, and in 1792, upon the death of his former teacher, Professor Moras, he succeeded to the chair of theology. Keil may be regarded as a worthy VI.-20
representative of the Leipsic school of theology, which exercised a considerable influence during the latter part of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. He published a Lehrbuch der Hermeneutik des Neuen Testaments (Leipsic, 1810) and wrote a number of essays, which were collected by J. D. Goldhorn and published under the title Keilii opuscula academica ad Novi Testamenti interpretationem grammatico-historicam et theologiae christianae origines pertinentia (1820). From 1812 to 1817 Keil collaborated with Tzschirner in editing the Analekten fur das Studium der exegetischen und systematischen Theologie.
(WOLDEMAR ScHMIDTf.) Bibliography: His autobiography is included in Kreusler, Be&chreibung der Feierlichkeiten am Jubelfeste der Universitat Leipzig, Dec. 4, 1809, pp. 10-16, Leipsic, 1810.
KEIL, JOHANN FRIEDRICH KARL: German Protestant exegete; b. at Lauterbach near Olsnitz (25 m. s.w. of Zwickau), Saxony, Feb. 26, 1807; d. at Rodlitz (8 m. s.e. of Glauchau), Saxony, May 5, 1888. He studied theology in Dorpat and Berlin, and in 1833 accepted a call to the theological faculty of Dorpat, where he labored for twenty-five years as docent and professor of Old- and New-Testament exegesis and Oriental languages. With Sartorius, Busch, later Philippi, Theodosius, Harnack and Kurtz, he educated for the Baltic provinces a generation of preachers who faithfully adhered to the confession of the Church. In 1859 he settled at Leipsic, where he devoted himself to literary work and to the practical affairs of the Lutheran Church. In 1887 he removed to Rodlitz, continuing there his literary activity until his death. He belonged to the strictly orthodox and conservative school of Hengstenberg. Ignoring almost entirely modern criticism, all his writings represent the view that the books of the Old and New Testaments are to be retained as the revealed word of God. Till the very last he regarded the modern development of German theological science as a passing phase of error. His chief work is the commentary on the Old Testament (4 vols, in 14, Leipsic, 1861-75; Eng. transl., 25 vols., Edinburgh, 1864-78), which he undertook with Franz Delitzsch. To this work he contributed commentaries on all the books from Genesis to Esther inclusive, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the minor prophets. He also published commentaries on Maccabees (Leipsic, 1875), Matthew (1877), Mark and Luke (1879), John (1881), Peter and Jude (1883), and Hebrews (1885). Other works are: Der Tempel Salomos (Dorpat, 1839); Einleitung in die kanonischen Schriften des Alten Testaments (Frankfort, 1853; 3d ed., 1873; Eng. transl., 2 vols., Manual of Historico-Critical Introduction to The O. T., Edinburgh, 1870); and Handbuch der biblischen Archaologie (1858-59; 2d. ed., 1875; Eng. transl., Manual of Biblical Archmology, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1887-88). (W J. A. Keil.)
KEIM, kaim, KARL THEODOR: German historical theologian; b. at Stuttgart Dec. 17, 1825; d. at Giessen Nov. 17, 1878. He studied theology from 1843 to 1847 at Tubingen, devoting himself with special zeal to Oriental languages, and being influenced by F. C. Baur. He was tutor in the family of Count Sontheim, 1848-50; in 1850 con-
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