rationalistic
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The Rationalistic Theology.—From the school of these men, especially from that of Semler, went forth crowds of rationalists, who for seventy years held almost all the professorships and pastorates of Protestant Germany.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
The professions of love for the Scriptures and the church, which we so often meet with in the writings of the early Rationalistic divines, were soon laid aside.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
Rationalistic moralism is surmounted by the injunction to strive after a higher good lying above virtue.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
The present age, if we hearken to Mr. Lecky, is purely Rationalistic, because purely progressive.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
The Older Rationalistic Theology.—The older, so-called vulgar rationalism, was characterized by the self-sufficiency with which it rejected all advances from philosophy and theology, science and national literature.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
