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Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE From the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to 1815 -- 1. Introduction -- Survey of Political Events -- Germany under Napoleon; the Wars of Liberation -- 2. History of the Catholic Church -- Secularization in Germany -- Napoleonic Concordat -- Situation of the Protestants under Napoleon -- Condition of the Catholic Church in Germany -- History of the Papacy: Pius VII up to His Imprisonment -- Pius VII in France; the Council of Paris; Further Negotiations -- Pope's Return to Rome -- 3. History of the Protestant Church -- Introduction -- Protestant Literature -- Herder -- Schiller and Goethe -- Romantics -- German Philosophy: Kant -- Fichte -- Schelling -- Jacobi -- Schleiermacher: Soliloquies, Speeches on Religion, Christmas Eve -- General Condition of Theology: Dogmatics -- Daub, Iheologumena -- Rationalistic Exegesis: Venturini, Paulus -- New Testament Criticism: Eichhorn, Schleiermacher -- Historical Theology: Planck, Marheineke -- Theological Journals -- pt. TWO From 1815 to 1830 -- 1. Introduction -- Political Conditions -- Ecclesiastical Developments -- 2. History of the Catholic Church -- Papacy: The Restoration Politics of Pius VII -- Success in Italy, Spain, and France -- Affairs in Germany -- Other Matters in the Reign of Pius VII -- Leo XII and Pius VIII -- Fortunes of the Jesuit Order after Its Suspension -- Generals of the Jesuit Order since Its Reinstatement -- Jesuits in Italy, Spain, and Portugal -- Jesuits in Austria, Bavaria, and Elsewhere in Germany -- Jesuits in France -- Relations between Protestants and Catholics in France -- Catholic Church in Belgium -- Catholic Church in Italy, Spain, and Portugal -- Catholics of Ireland -- Catholic Church in Bavaria -- Catholic Church in Prussia -- Ecclesiastical Provinces of the Upper Rhine -- Switzerland -- Trends of the Times: Advocates and Struggles -- 3. History of the Protestant Church -- Ecclesiastical Conditions Linked to Political Conditions -- Negotiations Concerning Ecclesiastical Conditions in Prussia -- Ecclesiastical System in Southern Germany -- Church Ritual in Prussia -- Celebration of the Jubilee of the Reformation; Harms, Ammon, and Schleiermacher -- Union; Introducing It in Prussia -- Union in Baden, the Palatinate, and Nassau -- Further Deliberations and Disciplinary Measures for Promoting the Union in Prussia -- Dogmatic Alignments: Rationalism and Supernaturalism -- Standpoint of Schleiermachers Glaubenslehre -- Glaubenslehres Position on Belief in Miracles -- Its Teaching about Sin and Redemption -- Christology of the Glaubenslehre -- Pantheism of the Glaubenslehre -- Glaubenslehres Relation to Church Teaching -- Internal Coherence and Historical Significance of the Glaubenslehre -- De Wette's Philosophy of Religion and Dogmatics -- De Wette and Schleiermacher -- Nature of Dogmatics at That Time -- Marheineke -- New Testament Criticism: Gieseler and Bretschneider -- Church History: Neander -- Theological Orientations and Their Publications; the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung -- pt. THREE From 1830 to Most Recent Times -- 1. Introduction: Political Conditions -- 2. History of the Catholic Church -- A. Papacy -- Gregory XVI; Unrest in the Papal States; Reaction -- First Years in the Reign of Pius IX -- Year 1848; Retreat of the Papists; the Roman Republic -- Pius IX and the Papacy after 1849 -- B. Most Recent History of the Jesuits -- Jesuits in France under Louis Philippe -- Jesuits in Switzerland; the Sonderbund War -- Fate of the Jesuit Order since 1848 -- C. Conflicts between Rome and Germany Prior to 1848 -- Controversy about Mixed Marriages: The State of Affairs up until 1837 -- Droste-Vischering and Dunin -- Controversy Resolved in Prussia -- Assessment of the Issues in the Controversy -- Controversy about Mixed Marriages in Wurttemberg -- Hermesianism and Its Condemnation -- Bautain -- Philosophy of Gunther and Its Condemnation -- German-Catholicism: The Sacred Tunic -- Ronge and Czerski -- Further History of German-Catholicism Prior to 1848 -- German-Catholicism since 1848 -- Assessment of German-Catholicism -- D. Mohler's Symbolik and the Protestant Response -- Mohler's Symbolik -- Protestant Response; the Significance of the Dispute -- State of Catholic Theology Today -- Dogma of the Immaculate Conception -- E. Most Recent Conflicts of the Catholic Church with the Government of States -- German Episcopacy in 1848 -- Catholic Church in Austria; the Concordat; The Position of the Protestants -- Church Controversy in Baden -- Wurttemberg Concordat and the Baden Concordat -- F. Concluding Remarks -- Spain, Portugal, and Italy -- France -- Switzerland -- 3. History of the Protestant Church -- A. History of Theology -- Hegel: The General Character of His System -- Hegel's Philosophy of Religion -- Hegelian School and "Positive Philosophy" -- Strauss's Life of Jesus -- Opponents of Strauss: Steudel, Hengstenberg, Tholuck, and Others -- Moderate Faction: Ullmann, Neander, and Others -- Weisse and the Hegelians -- Strauss's Streitschriften and "Vergangliches und Bleibendes" -- Look Backward at the Straussian Movement -- Ecclesiastical Reaction -- Schelling in Berlin; Neander -- Bruno Bauer -- Deutsche Jahrbucher -- Feuerbach -- Baur and the Tubingen School -- Dogmatic Theology: Nitzsch, Twesten, Marheineke, and Others -- Strauss's Glaubenslehre -- Mediating Theology; A More Modern Supernaturalism -- Rothe, Fichte, and Weisse -- Union Theology -- Orthodox Theologians: Hofmann and the Erlangen Group; and Baumgarten -- Historical Theology -- Biblical Exegesis -- Old Testament Theology: Hengstenberg -- Ecclesiastical and Theological Journals: Theologische Studien und Kritiken, Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, and Others -- B. Ecclesiastical Affairs -- Union and the Traditional Lutherans in Prussia -- Bishopric in Jerusalem -- Arrangements for a System of Governance in Prussia; The Protestant Conference; the 1846 General Synod -- Protestant Friends -- Discussion of the Matter in Print; The Protesting Theologians and the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung -- Free Congregations -- Charter of 30 March 1847 -- Dismissal of Uhlich -- Growth and the Suppression of the Free Congregations -- Deliberations about a Synodal System of Governance -- Protestant High Consistory in Berlin -- Union and Lutheranism in Prussia -- Stahl on the Union -- More on the History of Ecclesiastical Conditions -- Union in the Palatinate -- Further Attempt at Union: The Gustavus Adolphus Foundation -- Eisenach Conferences -- Protestant Church Congress -- Home Mission -- Protestant Alliance -- Current State of the Protestant Church: High Church Attitudes and Science -- Orthodoxy and Pietism -- Neo-Lutheran Concept of the Sacraments -- "Theology of Established Facts" -- Pneumatic Interpretation of Scripture -- Concluding Thoughts -- Appendix -- 1. Protestantism in the German Catholic States and Countries Other Than Germany -- In Bavaria -- In Austria -- In France -- In Switzerland -- In England: Puseyism (The Oxford Movement) -- 2. Sects of Most Recent Times within the Catholic Church and within the Protestant Church -- New French Church -- Saint-Simonians -- Irvingism -- Plymouth Brethren -- Wurttemberg Sects: The Harmonists, the Michelians, the Pregizerians, and the Adult Baptizers.