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ON THE STATE OF RELIGIOUS OPINION AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN GERMANY.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XLV .
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SEPTEMBER , 1830 .
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Sir , Heidelberg , July 29 th . An English Unitarian Christian would be denominated here a rational Supranaturalist , and to him it mast appear a question of easy solution , whether a Rationalist , who holds reason to be the final standard of what' is true in religious doctrine , and experience to be the measure of what is credible
in fact , can be also a believer in the divine authority of the Christian revelation . Stript of certain peculiarities of expression , his opinions appear to agree in the main with those which are exhibited in such works as Wollaston ' s Religion of Nature . At the same time he repels indignantly the imputation of open or secret hostility to the religion of the New Testament . Be this as it may , the dispute which has lately employed so many peas in Germany , involves a discussion of lasting interest to every friend of freedom
of opinion and expression , and hinges upon a principle , of which the practical difficulties must be felt by every liberal supporter of a state-religion . I believe that many well-wishers to the London University refused to give it their support from dissatisfaction that the appointment of a theological chair was not included in the plan of the institution . Whether the founders did right or not to avoid the embarrassments which might follow such an appointment in a popular institution , may perhaps be resolved by adverting
to some facts connected with several theological schools in Germany , upheld by the state and under the immediate controul of government . Before the end of the last century , ( in the year 1794 , ) an attempt was made at Jena to set a limit to the freedom with which the theological and philosophical faculties were accustomed to express their religious opinions ( Griesbach , Gabler , Schmidt , Paulus , Fischte , were then in that university ) . The
Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar , Charles Augustus , was earnestly desired to abridge the freedom in public lectures by a special edict . Whatever might be his private opinion of such a measure , he judged it to be his public duty to send the complaint to the Supreme Consistory , with the direction that they should require the proofs of the alleged abuses , consider of the proposed
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On The State Of Religious Opinion And Religious Liberty In Germany.
ON THE STATE OF RELIGIOUS OPINION AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN GERMANY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/1/
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