HANDS, IMPOSITION OF; LAYING ON OF. See Laying On of Hands.

HANER, hä'ner, JOHANN: Humanist; b. at Nuremberg, date not known; d. at Bamberg c.1544. He probably studied at Ingolstadt, and must have been known in certain circles as a humanist by 1517. He gave personal advice to Leo X. in regard to the Lutheran cause, and in 1524 addressed a letter to Clement VII. recommending certain slight eccle siastical reforms, in the manner of Erasmus. One month later he urged Erasmus to come forward in behalf of the threatened Church, but his addresses seem to have made no impression. In 1525 he became preacher of the cathedral church in Wilrz burg, but his leanings toward the Reformation soon compelled him to leave. As he had started from Erasmus, he was more inclined toward Zwingli than toward Luther. He attempted to bring about a reconciliation on the question of the Lord's Supper. At the Diet of Speyer in 1526 he became acquainted with Landgrave Philip, who took him into his service. After giving up his position at Wili-zburg, he returned to Nuremberg and received a small prebend there; but in consequence of mortified ambition, dissatisfaction with the condition of the church in Nuremberg, and deficient knowledge of the Lutheran doctrine of justification, he went, in 1532, to Regensburg and reentered the Roman Catholic Church. In 1533 he sent to Landgrave Philip and George of Saxony a manuscript treatise, directed against the Evangelical doctrine of justification, Prophetia tutus ac nova hoc at, vera scriyturle interpretatio. De syneera cognitione Christi, which Cochlmus published in 1534 against the will of the author. Haner was answered by Thomas Venatorius, preacher of Nuremberg, in his De sola fide iusti fieante nos in oculis dei (1534; reprinted 1556). In the beginning of 1535 Haner had to leave Nuremberg and went to Bamberg, where he was accepted as preacher of the cathedral church late in 1541. In 1535 he sent a treatise on the council to Vergerio and in 1537 made new propositions to the pope. In 1539 he published in Leipsic Theses Joannis Haneri Noribergensis de pwnitmtia, in which he attacked Luther and tried to influence the antinomian controversy (see Antinomianism and Antinomian Controversies, II).

(T. Kolde.)

Bibliography: J. J. I. von Döllinger, Reformation, i. 130 sqq., Regensburg, 1851; idem, Beiträge zur politiaden, kirchdichen and Kulturgeschichte der seeks letzten Jahrhunderte, iii. 105 sqq., Vienna, 1882; F. F. von Soden, Beetrape zurGeschichte der Reformation, p.354, Nuremberg, 1855; A. Baur, Zwinglis Theologie, ii. 418 sqq., Halle, 1889; W. Friedensburg, in Beiträge zur baYereschen Kircheweschiehte, v. (1899) 167. Prof. Kolde purposes to write a biography.

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