19
Lecky, 22
Classes of Rationalists, 24-26
Causes of the success of Rationalism, 26-32
Four Considerations in Reference to Rationalism, 32-35

CHAPTER I.

CONTROVERSIAL PERIOD SUCCEEDING THE REFORMATION.

Causes of the Controversial Spirit, 38
The Controversies described, 39, 40
George Calixtus, 40-45
Jacob Boehme, 46-49
John Arndt, 49-51
John Gerhard, 51-53
John Valentine Andreae, 53-55

CHAPTER II.

RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH AT THE
PEACE OF WESTPHALIA.

Description of the Thirty Years' War, 56-59
Religious Decline of the Church, 59-61
Neglect of Children, 62-65
Defects of Theological Literature, 66-68
Low State of Theological Instruction, 68, 69
Imperfect Preaching of the Time, 69-73
Immorality of the Clergy and Theological Professors, 73-77
Religious Indifference of the Upper Classes, 77-80

CHAPTER III.

PIETISM AND ITS MISSION.

Philosophy of the Period, 82
Improvement dependent on Individuals, 84, 85
What Pietism proposed to do, 85-88
Principles of Pietism, 88, 89
Philip Jacob Spener, the Founder of Pietism, 89-93
University of Halle, 93
Augustus Hermann Francke, 93-95
The Orphan House at Halle, 95-97
Influence of the University of Halle, 97, 98
Arnold and Thomasius, 98, 99
New Generation of Professors in Halle, 99, 100
Cause of the Decline of Pietism, 102

CHAPTER IV.

THE POPULAR PHILOSOPHY OF WOLFF.--SKEPTICAL TENDENCIES
FROM ABROAD.

Leibnitz, Founder of the Wolffian Philosophy, 103, 10