History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe

Abstract

During the fierce theological controversies that accompanied and followed the Reformation, while a judicial spirit was 'as yet unknown, while each party imagined itself the representative of 'absolute and necessary truth in opposition to absolute and fatal error, and while the fluctuations of belief were usually attributed to direct miraculous agency, it was natural that all the causes of theological changes should have been sought exclusively within , the circle of theology.