History of rationalism; embracing a survey of the present state of Protestant theology

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. xv, 623 pages 23 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 590-610) Introduction -- 1. Controversial period succeeding the Reformation -- 2. Religious condition of the Protestant church at the Peace of Westphalia -- 3. Pietism and its mission -- 4. The popular philosophy of Wolff -- skeptical tendencies from abroad -- 5. Semler and the destructive school -- 1750-1810 -- 6. Contributions of literature and philosophy -- 7. The reign of the Weimar circle -- revolution in education and hymnology -- 8. Doctrines of Rationalism in the day of its strength -- 9. Renovation inaugurated by Schleiermacher --10. Relations of Rationalism and Supernaturalism -- 1810-1835 -- 11. The reaction produced by Strauss' Life of Jesus -- 1835-1848 -- 12. The Evangelical school: its opinions and present prospects -- 13. Practical movements indicating new life -- 14. Holland: theology and religion from the Synod of Dort to the commencement of the present century -- 15. Holland cont.: the new theological schools, and the great controversy now pending between Orthodoxy and Rationalism -- 16. France: Rationalism in the Protestant church -- the critical school -- 17. France cont.: Evangelical theology opposing Rationalism -- 18. Switzerland: Orthodoxy in Geneva, and the new speculative Rationalism in Zürich -- 19. England: the soil prepared for the introduction of Rationalism -- 20. England cont.: philosophical and literary Rationalism -- Coleridge and Carlyle -- 21. England cont.: critical Rationalism -- Jowett, the Essays and Reviews, and Colenso -- 22. England cont.: survey of church parties -- 23. The United States: the Unitarian church -- the Universalists -- 24. The United States cont.: Theodore Parker and his school -- 25. Indirect service of skepticism -- present outlook -- Appendix: Literature of Rationalism -- Literature of Unitarianism and Universalism -- Index