human
; adding:
gpt
What he taught had been thoroughly and ingeniously said in France and England; but from a German theologian, and that with such eloquent coarseness, with such a mastery in expatiating in blasphemy, such things were unheard of. [1282] The force of Edelmann's attack may be gathered from the same writer's account of him as a
human
who rose to a
gpt
and semi-rationalistic teaching, as in the Reflections on the most important truths of religion [1283] (1768-1769) of J. F. W. Jerusalem, Abbot of Marienthal in Brunswick, and later of Riddagshausen (1709-1789). Jerusalem had travelled in Europe, and had spent two years in Holland and one in England, where he studied the deists and their opponents.
human
In England alone, he declared,
gpt
[1284] Though really written by way of defending Christianity against the freethinkers, in particular against Bolingbroke and Voltaire, [1285] the very title of his book is suggestive of a process of disintegration; and in it certain unedifying Scriptural miracles are actually rejected. [1286] It was probably this measure of adaptation to new needs that gave it its great popularity in Germany and secured its translation into several other languages. Goethe called him a
human
; and a modern orthodox historian of the Church groups him with those who
gpt
[1287] Jerusalem was, however, at most a semi-rationalist, taking a view of the fundamental Christian dogmas which approached closely to that of Locke. [1288] It was, as Goethe said later, the epoch of common sense; and the very theologians tended to a
human
Even in God I find defects (Fehler).
gpt
to the freethinkers was a failure. Men of science playing at theology and theologians playing at science alike failed to turn the tide of opinion, now socially favoured by the known deism of the king. German orthodoxy, says a recent Christian apologist, fell
human
[1300] Goethe, writing of the general attitude to Christianity about 1768, sums up that
gpt
on popular opinion (Willich, Elements of the Critical Philosophy, 1798, p. 2). With this his French teachers must have had much to do. Lord Morley pronounces (Voltaire, 4th ed. p. 123) that French deism
human
and that