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New Hypothesis concerning the evangelists as merely human writers. He himself thought that he had done nothing
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[1385] of the kind; and though his results were in part unsound and impermanent, he is justly to be credited with the first scientific attempt to deduce the process of composition of the gospels [1386] from primary writings by the first Christians. Holding as he did to the authenticity and historicity of the fourth gospel, he cannot be said to have gone very deep; but two generations were to pass before the specialists got any further. Lessing had shown more science and more courage than any other pro-Christian scholar of the time, and, as the orthodox historian of rationalism has it,
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Though he did not array himself as a champion of rationalism, he proved himself one of the strongest promoters of its reign.
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Berliner was about 1777 a synonym for
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[1388] Wieland, one of the foremost German men of letters of his time, is known to have become a deist of the school of Shaftesbury; [1389] and in the leading journal of the day he wrote on the free use of reason in matters of faith. [1390] Some acts of persecution by the Church show how far the movement had gone. In 1774 we find a Catholic professor at Mayence, Lorenzo Isenbiehl, deposed and sent back to the seminary for two years on the score of