Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
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The chief evil is the irreligiousness, transplanted
from Denmark to Schleswig, and the demorali
sation in its train. Among the Danish clergy
religious moral conduct is the exception, not
The the rule."*
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candidates for the pas
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simulated orthodoxy up to
torate/ it is said,f
their examination, and showed themselves de
cided rationalists in the sermon to be delivered
immediately
on the ordination."
to Danish descriptions," adds Dollinger,
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According
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the
great majority of the clergy there have sunk
as completely
into the unbelieving neo-theo-
logical views as the German Lutheran clergy :
they only wavered between a frivolous unbelief
and a rationalism with somewhat more scientific
show. Now and long since, the Danish clergy
are in the main divided into two parties, the
rationalist-unbelieving and the followers of
Grundtvig."
The Up sal Theological Review, like the
Danish writer, proposes
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hoped-for
Sweden.
result from closer alliance with
" Far from us,"
it says,
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development as the
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be an union, in
which the several Church communities should
merge and disappear into one another by giving
up all their peculiarities. But that the several
* Petersen, Erlebnisse e. Schleswig. Predigers, p. 337;
Frankf. 1856. In Dollinger, p. 369.
+ In Bruns, Repert. v. 105 ; in Doll. p. 366.