Excerpt from The War and Theology The eflect of German thought on British theology began to be felt first in Reformation times but it was neither marked nor widespread till the middle of the nineteenth century. In the year 1857 Mark Pattison was able to write, ' It must not be supposed that German theology is some obscure national product, the concern exclusively of the country which has given it birth. It is no insulated phenomenon. Though gener ated in Germany it belongs to Christendom. It is the theological movement of the age. It is only because there is fuller intellectual life in Germany than elsewhere -only because it so happens that, at present, European speculation is transacted by Germans, as our financial afiairs are by Jews, that German characteristics are impressed on the substance of the Christian science. The capital of learning is in the hands of Germans, and theirs has been the enterprise which has directed it into theological channels.' True as this judgement is, it had men, up to that time, by no means universally accepted. Both in Liberal and orthodox circles, by Arnold as well as by Pusey, German neology was regarded with dislike and alarm. In 1825, in his preface to a translation of Schleiermacher's Critical Essay on the Gospel of St. Lake, Connop Thirlwall had written, It would almost seem as if at Oxford the knowledge of German subjected a divine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.