HENKE, hAn'ke, HEINRICH PHILIPP KONRAD: Professor of theology at Helmstedt; b. at Hehlen (on the Weser, near Hameln), in Brunswick, July 3, 1752; d. at Helmstedt May 2, 1809. He attended school in Brunswick, and in 1712 entered the University of Helmstedt. In 1777 he became professor of philosophy, and lectured on the classics, history of literature and philosophy, logic and esthetics, devoting, however, some time also to instruction in theological branches. In 1780 he became professor of theology, in 1795 abbot of the monastery of Michaelstein, which had been transformed into an Evangelical seminary, in 1800 general superintendent, in 1803 abbot of Königalutter, and in 1804 vice-president of the consistory and superintendent of the Collegium Carolinum, without, however, interrupting his work as professor at Helmstedt.

Henke found hiss way to theology by his humanistic, philological, and philosophical studies. His aversion to orthodoxy, however, did not exclude the most faithful and vital reverence for Christ; he could not help acknowledging in the greatness and beauty of ancient philosophy and poetry traces and gifts of God. In the human history of Christ he saw his divinity and the deeds of him who had sent him. Thus he was inclined to trace the unevangelical disfigurement of original simplicity not only to the fourth and fifth centuries, but to much earlier phases of theological development. He wrote a church history (6 vols., Brunswick, 1799-1808). His dogmatics, Lineaments inatitutionum fidei Christiana historisb-sriticarum (Helmstedt, 1793), was written from the point of view of opposing the unpolluted Christianity of the earliest times

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to the whole later development of doctrine as a perversion of primitive faith.

(E. Henke†.)

Bibliography: A life was written by two of his pupils, G. B. Bollmann and W. Wolff, Helmstedt, 1818, and a notice by his youngest eon in Erech and Gruber, II., v. 308-314.

HENOTICON, THE: The "decree of union" or "instrument of union," probably drawn up by Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, and issued by the Emperor Zeno (482) for thepurpose of reconciling the Monophysite and orthodox divisions of the Church. It satisfied neither party. In the East it was made obligatory on all bishops and teachers. In the West it was anathematized by Felix II., and a schism of forty years followed, until the death of Anastasius (518); his successor, Justin, belonged to the orthodox side and suffered the Henoticon to fall into disuse without formally repealing it. See MoNopaysrrEs, § 6.

Bibliography: KL, v. 1770-74 (where the substance and part of the text is given in Latin); Neander, Christian Church, ii. 588-590, 592.