Mercersburg Theology is a romantic Reformed theology which during the midnineteenth century stood opposed to the main developments of American religious thought. mercersburg神学是一个浪漫的改革神学，这期间midnineteenth世纪站在反对的主要事态发展，美国的宗教思想。 It was the work of John Williamson Nevin (1803 - 86), a theologian, and Philip Schaff (1819 - 93), a church historian, who taught at the seminary of the German Reformed Church in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in the 1840s and 1850s.这是工作的约翰威廉姆森•尼（ 1803 -8 6） ，神学家，和菲利普沙夫（ 1 819- 93 ），一所教堂的历史学家，谁任教于神学院的德国改革教会在m e rcersburg，宾夕法尼亚州，在1 9世纪40年代和1 9世纪50年代。
Nevin had graduated from Presbyterian Princeton, had lectured there briefly, and then taught for a decade at a Presbyterian seminary in Pittsburgh before joining Mercersburg in 1840. •尼曾毕业于普林斯顿大学长老会，讲学，有简单的，然后教了十年，在长老会神学院在美国匹兹堡前加入mercersburg在1840年。 He detailed the theological pilgrimage which undergirded his move away from a Princeton form of Calvinism in The History and Genius of the Heidelberg Catechism, doctrinal standard of the German Reformed, exhibited the Reformation at its best before its modern decline into a rationalistic and mechanical "Puritanism."他详细介绍了神学朝圣，其中undergirded他搬离从普林斯顿的形式，加尔文在历史和天才海德堡问答，理论水平的德国改革，展示了改革在其前最佳及其现代下降，成为一个理性和力学“清教“ 。 Nevin criticized the direction of American Protestantism in The Anxious Bench (1843), a work which attacked revivalism for being too individualistic, too emotional, and too much concerned with the "new measures" (such as the anxious bench for souls under conviction) which drew attention to human foibles and away from the work of Christ and the church. •尼批评的方向，美国基督教在焦虑长椅（ 1843 ） ，工作袭击复兴，为过于个人主义，过于感情用事，和太多的关注与“新措施” （如焦虑替补为灵魂的信念下）提请注意人类foibles ，远离工作的基督和教会。 To remedy these ills Nevin proposed a return to classic Reformed convictions about Christ and his work.为了补救这些弊病•尼提出了返回经典改革的信念有关基督和他的工作。
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When Philip Schaff came to Mercersburg in 1844 from the University of Berlin, he brought along an appreciation for Germany's new idealistic philosophy and for its pietistic church renewal as well.当弘沙夫来mercersburg于1844年从大学的柏林，他带来的一赞赏德国的新理想主义的哲学和其pietistic教会重建，以及。 His early work at Mercersburg urged Protestants toward a fuller appreciation of the Christian past.他的早期工作mercersburg呼吁新教徒走向更全面的赞赏基督教过去。 In The Principle of Protestantism (1844) he suggested, for example, that the Reformation continued the best of medieval Catholicism.在原则基督教（ 1844 ）他建议，例如，改革继续最好的中世纪天主教。 And he looked forward to the day when Reformed, Lutheran, and even eventually Catholic believers could join in Christian union.他期待着有一天，当改革，路德会，甚至最终天主教信徒可以加入，在基督教联盟。 Such views led to charges of heresy, from which Schaff cleared himself only with difficulty.这种看法导致的收费异端，从哪个沙夫清理自己只与困难。
The influence of Nevin and Schaff was slight in the 1840s and 1850s.影响•尼和沙夫是轻微的，在19世纪40年代和19世纪50年代。 American Protestants were ill at ease with immigrants and with anyone who spoke a good word for any aspect of Roman Catholicism.美国新教徒被不安与移民和与其他人谁以一个良好的字任何方面的罗马天主教。 They were wholeheartedly given to revivalism.他们全心全意地给予复兴。 They were busy making plans for interdenominational cooperation and did not look kindly on Mercersburg's new reading of history.他们正忙于计划，教派间的合作与不看善意就mercersburg的新读的历史。 And America's dominant Protestant philosophy, commonsense realism, had little room for the developmental ideas of Nevin and Schaff.和美国的主导新教哲学，现实主义的常识，几乎没有空间的发展思路•尼和沙夫。
The two Mercersburg stalwarts were able to work closely together for barely a decade.两个mercersburg巨头能够紧密合作，共同为仅十年。 Nevin, after editing the Mercersburg Review from 1849 to 1853, retired because of illness and disillusionment. •尼后，编辑mercersburg检讨，从1849年至1853年，已退休的，因为疾病和幻灭。 Schaff left Mercersburg in 1863 for teaching posts at Andover and Union seminaries, where he participated actively in the general evangelical life of America.沙夫左mercersburg在1863年为教师职位，在andover和联盟的神学院，在那里他积极参加了在一般的生命福音事工促进会，美利坚合众国。 Nonetheless, the works of the Mercersburg men remain a guide - post for Christians who share their convictions: that the person of Christ is the key to Christianity; that the Lord's Supper, understood in a classic Reformed sense, is the secret to the ongoing life of the church; and that study of the church's past provides the best perspective for bringing its strength to bear on the present.然而，工程的mercersburg男子仍然是一个指南-邮政基督徒谁分享自己的信念： 人基督是关键基督教;上帝的晚餐，相互理解，在一个典型的改革意识，是秘密进行的生活该教会，并且研究了教会的过去提供了最佳的角度为实现其实力，以承担对本。
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参考书目
JH Nichols,
Romanticism in American Theology: Nevin and Schaff at Mercersburg and (ed.) The
Mercersburg Theology.家尼科尔斯，浪漫主义在美国的神学： •尼和沙夫在mercersburg和（编）
mercersburg神学。
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