Johann Georg Wilhelm Herrmann (6 December 1846 – 2 January 1922) was a Lutheran German theologian.

[6] Among Herrmann's most distinguished pupils where Rudolf Bultmann, Karl Barth, and John Gresham Machen.

Both Barth and Machen would reject Herrmann's teaching and come to notability by their opposition to such liberal theology.

[8] He held that one can only speak of God dialectically, with two opposing statements - thesis and antithesis, "the dogmatic and the critical, the Yes and the No, the unveiling and the veiling, objectivity, and subjectivity.

"[8] Herrmann also freely admitted his thinking was indebted to Friedrich Schleiermacher, who had held that the religious experience of God took place within the individual.