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In Germany the state of things is widely different . The wisdom of our ancestors , , by excluding Catholics from our universities , has compelled them to fouAd $ e # ii&ar 1 es 6 f tneologldal instruction for themselves , in Which we now , with strange inconsistency , complain , that their priests are brought up in narrow and exclusive habits of thought , and strong hostility to Protestantism . In Germany a university is a school for all , without distinction of creed , and all studies which are of a general kind are carried on in common .
This association with those of a different belief has produced the most striking and beneficial effects on the minds of the Catholics , both students and professors . Placed in the centre of knowledge and investigation , their academical teachers have felt how futile it would be to endeavour to stop their progress by appealing to authority , or to contend against the new opinions which Protestant critics were diffusing , except by the same weapons of learning and argument which they employed . They m&de themselves masters of all the improvements in theological science , and examined every argument
of the neologists according to its own merit , instead of denouncing them from the pulpit or the altar . The bias of their minds was indeed just the reverse of that of their most eminent contemporaries ; but the stare super antiquas vias 9 which , as members of the Church of Rome , would naturally be their motto , might serve as a useful direction at a time when so many
went astray , merel y because they disdained to walk in a beaten path . The coiiseqttehce has been , th&t several df the Roman Catholic professors of theology in Germany have attained a very high rank among the cultivators of that science , and , if we mistake hot , will be pronounced by future scholars to have been , " on some points , much nearer the truth than their Protestant adversaries .
Among these Roman Catholic professors , the two most emirient are Hug of Freiburg and Jahh of Vienna . Hug ' s Introduction to the New Testament , which the . translator of Schleiermacher has pronounced one of the most vdluable works of German theology , is about to be published by Dr . Wait , of St . J 6 bfa * s College , Cambridge . His work on the Invention and Antiquity of Alp habetical Writing is by far the ablest arisAve ' r that Ms appeared to the bold speculatipns of Wolf on the ori g in of the Iliad . The principal wbrk of Jahn is'his Bibltsche Archaologie , m five volumes octavo , containing the most succinct and cbmplete view of all that has been done iti
53 £ , et seq . Those , who are destined to the clerical office must have gone through the regular course of preparatory learning in the ^ mnasfa , and have been ' authorized by the teachers In them to proceed to the university . On their arrival there , before they begin the study of theology , they must attend the professors of Greek and Latin literature , mathematics , physics , metaphysics and lpgic , and general history , and must , undergp examination by the professors of each of these branches , who , if
he fiijds them competent , gives tfyem a certificate stating the regularity of their attendance and the amount of their proficieWy . All this being done they are allowed to enter 6 ntheolo ^ y , which itself comprehends the following branches : Encyclppedia of Theological Study , ( a general view of the science , with references to the best authors , ) Exegesis . of Scripture , Ecclesiastical History , Canon imd Ecclesiastical Law , Morals , Doctrinal ^ Theology , and Oriental philology . No order is prescribed for these studies , bu ^ six semesters ( or sessions of nearly six month s e ^ ach ) must be occupied in them . The ' tiirbfessbr of each branch eianiines and Cettines ' the
proficiency of the student . Lastly , after a very close examination on the subject of all their previous studies , they are received into the episcopal seminaries , where they remain twoyearB , and are instructed in the liturgy , in preaching and catechizing , and all pastoral duties . At the same time they retrace their former studies , and are required to attend to what the Germans call Padagogik ( the art or science of teaching Bchool ) , Ordination closes their stupes .
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634 On the Mythical Interpretation of the Bible ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 634, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/2/
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