Rothe, Richard, eminent German theologian, born at Posen, professor eventually at Heidelberg; regarded the Church as a temporary institution which would decease as soon as it had fulfilled its function by leavening society with the Christian spirit; he wrote several works, but the greatest is entitled “Theological Ethics” (1799-1867).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rostrum * Rotherham