History of Rationalism: Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology, with Appendix of Literature

xix, 623 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Controversial Period Succeeding the Reformation; Religious Condition of the Protestant Church at the Peace of Westphalia; Pietism and Its Mission; The Popular Philosophy of Wolff--Skeptical Tendencies from Abroad; Semler and the Destructive School--1750-1810; Contributions of Literature and Philosophy; The Reign of the Weimar Circle--Revolution in Education and Hymnology; Doctrines of Rationalism in the Day of Its Strength; Renovation Inaugurated by Schleiermacher; Relations of Rationalism and Supernaturalism--1810-1835; The Reaction Produced by Strauss' Life of Jesus--1835-1848; The Evangelical School: Its Opinions and Present Prospects; Practical Movements Indicating New Life; Holland: Theology and Religion from the Synod of Dort to the Commencement of the Present Century; Holland Continued: The New Theological Schools, and the Great Controversy Now Pending Between Orthodoxy and Rationalism; France: Rationalism in the Protestant Church--The Critical School; France Continued: Evangelical Theology Opposing Rationalism; Switzerland: Orthodoxy in Geneva, and the New Speculative Rationalism in Zurich; England: The Soil Prepared for the Introduction of Rationalism; England Continued: Philosophical and Literary Rationalism--Coleridge and Carlyle; England Continued: Critical Rationalism--Jowett, the Essays and Reviews, and Colenso; England Continued: Survey of Church Parties; The United States: The Unitarian Church--The Universalists; The United States Continued: Theodore Parker and His School; Indirect Service of Skepticism--Present Outlook; Appendix.