Carl Christian Ullmann (March 3, 1796 in Epfenbach, Electoral Palatinate – January 12, 1865) was a German Calvinist theologian.
[1] In 1829 he went to Halle upon Saale as professor to teach church history, dogmatics and symbolics, but in 1836 he returned to a chair at Heidelberg, where he taught until 1856.
[citation needed] A lifelong exponent of the "meditation school" of theology (Vermittelungs-Theologie), in 1828, with the help of Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Umbreit (1795–1860), he founded and edited the Theologische Studien and Kritiken in its interests.
When Julius Wegscheider and Wilhelm Gesenius were denounced by Hengstenberg as rationalists, he pleaded for freedom in theological teaching (cf.
[3] In Das Wesen des Christenthums (1845; 5th edition, 1865; English translation, 1860), Ullmann explains that Christianity is independent of the orthodox formulas, and contends that a distinction should be made between faith and dogmatics.