ng the seventeenth century (p. 211).

(1) The dogmatic and scholastic, science without earnestness (p. 212). (2)
The pietistic, earnestness without science (p. 213).

In the first half of the eighteenth century, three new influences are
introduced (pp. 213, 214), which are the means of creating rationalism in
the latter half: viz.

({~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}) The philosophy of Wolff, explained to be a formal expression of
Leibnitz's principles; and the evil effect of it, accidental and indirect
(pp. 214-216). ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}) The works of the English deists (p. 216). ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}) The
influence of the colony of French infidels at the court of Frederick II.
of Prussia (p. 217).

The subsequent history is studied in three periods (p. 218); viz.

PERIOD I. (1750-1810).--Destructive in character, inaugurated by Semler
(pp. 218-234). PERIOD II. (1810-1835).--Reconstructive in character,
inaugurated by Schleiermacher (pp. 239-261). PERIOD III. (1835 to present
time)--Exhibiting definite and final tendencies, inaugurated by Strauss
(Lect. VII).

PERIOD I. (1750-1810), is studied under two Sub-periods:

Sub-period I. (1750-1790, pp. 219-228), which includes three movements;
(1) Within the church (p. 219 seq.); dogmatic; literary in Michaelis and
Ernesti; and freethinking in Semler (pp. 221-224), the author of the
historic method of interpretation. (2) External to the church (pp.
224-226); literary deism in Lessing, and in the Wolfenbuettel fragments of
Reimarus (p. 225). (3) External to the church; practical deism, in the
educational institutions of Basedow (p. 227).

Sub-period II. (1790-1810, pp. 227-234); the difference caused by the
introduction of two new influences; viz,

({~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}) The literary, of the court of Weimar and of the great men gathered
there (p. 228). ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}) The philosophy of Kant, (the effect of which is
explained, pp. 229, 230); the home of both of which was at Jena.

As the result of these new influences, three movements are visible in the
Church (p. 230); viz,

(1) The critical "rationalism" of Eichhorn and Paulus, the intellectual
successors of Semler (pp. 231, 232). (2) The dogmatic, more or less
varying from orthodoxy, seen towards the end of this period in
Bretschneider, Roehr, and Wegscheider (pp. 233, 234). (3) The
supernaturalism of Reinhardt and Storr (p. 231).

PERIOD II. (1810-1835.)--Introduction of four new