HISTORY OF THE CHURCH

IN THE

EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES.

BY K. R. HAGENBACH, D.D.,

PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BASLE.

TRANSLATED FROM THE LAST GERMAN EDITION, WITH
ADDITIONS,

BY REV. JOHN F. HURST, D.D.

VOLUME II.

NEW YORK:

CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO., 654 BROADWAY.

1869.

JUL 1 1902

Divinity School
From the Estate of

Prof. E. W. Gurney

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR,

HISTORY OF RATIONALISM,

EMBRACING A SURVEY OF THE PRESENT STATE OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY.

WITH APPENDIX OF LITERATURE.

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CONTENTS

OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

LECTURE I.

Introduction.-Plan.-Herder's Youth down to his Appoint-

ment in Bückeburg.

LECTURE II.

Goethe on Herder. -Herder's Official Labors in Bückeburg.-

Countess Maria.-Herder's Literary Labors. — Call to Weimar.

-Literary Climax.-Journey to Italy. -His Later Life.-

His Characteristics. His Versatility and Vivacity. - Humanity

and its Relation to Christianity and Protestantism.

LECTURE III.

Herder as a Theologian.-His Human Method of Contemplating

the Divine. -Poetic Observation of the World.-Scene in a

Journey. - Herder's Christianity.-His Theological Convic-

tions and Character. - His Opinions on Theology and the

Ministerial Office.-Herder as a Preacher. His View of

Hymns, and his own Gifts as Religious Poet.

LECTURE IV.

Herder's Position toward Protestantism. - His Conservative

Tendency.-Strict Views on Church Discipline and the Free-

dom of the Press. - His Position toward Philosophy. — Im-

manuel Kant and the "Critique of Pure Reason.”—The

Relation of this Philosophy to Christianity.—Rapid Increase

of Kantianism.

1-16

1737

88-59

60-78

LECTURE V.

Herder's Position toward Kant's Philosophy.-Rationalism and

Supernaturalism.- Franz Volkmar Reinhard and his Confessions. 79-101