John Fletcher Hurst, later a Methodist bishop, follows the rise of rationalism within German Protestantism after the Reformation. He moves from the age of controversy and Pietism through the popular philosophy of Wolff, Semler’s critical school and the Weimar literary circle to the renewal led by Schleiermacher, then surveys the struggle between rationalism and supernaturalism in his own day.
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