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SWITZERLAND: ORTHODOXY IN GENEVA, AND THE NEW SPECULATIVE RATIONALISM IN ZÜRICH.

Prostration of the Swiss Church at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 425, 426 Neglect of Theological Instruction, 426, 427 The Theological Academy in Geneva, 428 The Evangelical Dissenting Church, 428 Gaussen, 428, 429 Vinet, 429 Present Religious Condition of Geneva, 429, 430 Lectures in the Genevan Theological Academy, 431, 432 Religious Declension of Zürich, 432 Zürich the Centre of Swiss Rationalism: 433-435 The Speculative Rationalism: The Holy Scriptures, 435 Christ, 435-437 Sin, 438 Faith, 438, 439 German Switzerland influenced by German Theology, 439

CHAPTER XIX.

ENGLAND: THE SOIL PREPARED FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF RATIONALISM.

English Deism and German Rationalism Contrasted, 440 Literature of England in the Eighteenth Century, 440, 441 The Writers of that Period, 441 Influence of the French Spirit, 441, 442 Bolingbroke, 442, 443 Hume, 444-447 Gibbon, 447, 448 The moral Prostration of the Church, 448-450 Influence of the Wesleyan Movement, 450-452

CHAPTER XX.

ENGLAND CONTINUED: PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY RATIONALISM.--COLERIDGE AND CARLYLE.

Compensations of History, 453
Rise of a Disposition in England to consult German Theology
and Philosophy, 453, 454
Philosophical Rationalism:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 455-462
Julius Charles Hare, 462-465
F. D. Maurice, 465-468
Charles Kingsley, 468-471
Literary Rationalism:
Influence of Philosophy on Literature, 472
Thomas Carlyle, 473-477
The _Westminster Review_, 477-480
Necessity of active Protestantism, 480

CHAPTER XXI.

ENGLAND CONTINUED: CRITICAL RATIONALISM--JOWETT, THE ESSAYS AND REVIEWS, AND COLENSO.

Relation of the Bible to Christianity, 481
Critical Rationalism:
Professor Jowett, 481
The "Essays and Reviews," 482-497
Judicial Proceedings against the Writers of that
Work, 497-499
Criticism of Bishop Colenso, 499-503
Judicial Proceedings against Colenso, 503-505

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