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of the innovating writer. Always temperamentally religious, he died in the evangelical faith. But his own influence in promoting rationalism is now obvious and unquestioned, [1336] and he is rightly to be reckoned a main founder of
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German rationalism --that is, academic rationalism on theologico-historical lines [1337]--although he always professed to be merely rectifying orthodox conceptions. In the opinion of Pusey
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[1338] First he published (1764) True Reasons why God has not furnished Revelation with evident proofs, [1339] arguing for the modern attenuation of the idea of revelation; then a work on Divine Inspiration (1771) in which he explicitly avowed that
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God has in no way, either inwardly or outwardly, dictated the sacred books. The writers were the real authors [1340]--a declaration not to be counterbalanced by further generalities about actual divine influence. Later still he published a Proof that God leads men to salvation even by his revelation in Nature [1341] (1766)--a form of Christianity little removed from deism. Other theologians, such as Ernesti, went far with the tide of illuminism; and when the orthodox Chr. A. Crusius died at Leipzig in 1781, Jean Paul Richter, then a student, wrote that people had become
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Most, almost all the students, adds Richter, incline to heterodoxy; and of the professor Morus he tells that