This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... An historical enquiry into the probable causes of the Rationalist character lately predominant in the theology of Germany Edward Bouverie Pusey PREFACE. The relation which the following sheets bear to a work, which has in this country met with considerable approbation, seems to require that a brief ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... An historical enquiry into the probable causes of the Rationalist character lately predominant in the theology of Germany Edward Bouverie Pusey PREFACE. The relation which the following sheets bear to a work, which has in this country met with considerable approbation, seems to require that a brief explanation be given of the circumstances in which they originated. Mr. Rose's Essay has unquestionably, through the number of facts which it stated, had the merit of introducing the subject of German Theology more extensively before the English, and of furnishing a considerable number of data, from which the character of the late Rationalist Theology might in itself be appreciated. In the mode, however, in which these facts were presented, the Author missed that arrangement of the facts themselves, through which alone it becomes possible to trace the connexion of causes and effects through the whole course of the system described; as well as a due appreciation of the intrinsic and relative importance of those facts. To some of the innovations a degree of weight seemed to be attached, which their rela tion to the whole compass of the Christian system did not appear to justify: other attempts, which were in themselves justly stigmatized, had either expired as soon as they came into being, or even if they did enjoy a short-lived existence, were, from their nature and the character of their authors, as little entitled to notice, as the ephemeral and contemptible productions of a Carlile or a Hone. It was indeed almost unavoidable, that, without enquiry in the country itself, mistakes must frequently be committed as to the real influence of any instrument, whether a literary production or an institution. The Christian
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