674 
Brake publifhed a Colleétion of Hifto- 
rical Memoirs relative to the Mif- 
fionary Expeditions, &c. in England, 
Holland, and Germany, principaliy 
tranflated from the Englifh and Ger- 
man. To the fame party, RisLER’s 
“ Erzahlungen aus der alten und 
neuen Gefchichte der Briiderkirche ;”° 
or, Edifying Selections from the Hif- 
tory of the Moravian Brethren, will 
be a very acceptable prefent. 
Among the lateft ceclefialtical occur- 
rences, for the recording of which 
Abbot HENKE continues his Annals, 
feveral important changes in the Ros 
man Catholic church excited general 
attention.~-On and againft the Conz 
cordat betwixt Bonaparte and the Pope, 
which will probably foon be followed 
by a fimilar agreement with the States 
ot Germany, feveral publications ftill 
made their appearance, which point 
_ out its tendency, and how little its 
fpirit h:rmonizes with the enlightened 
fentiments of the prefent age. 
_ We were much concerned to find 
it but too well proved in LecLerc’s 
é¢ Enthillien Trappiten”—Unm.: fked 
La-Trappifts, that this mifanthropbic 
order of monks is gaining ground; 
and equally difagreeable were the re- 
orts relative to the re-eftablifhment of 
the Order of Jefuits, whofe Hiftory, 
pudlithed fome years ago by Wo tr of 
Leipzig, in feveral volumes, and in 
whicn a no very flattering picture of 
thefe fathers is exhibited, has met with 
fach approbation that a newand im- 
proved edition made its appearance.— 
On the other hand; the victorious con- 
teft of the enlightened patriots of Ba- 
varia againit the monks and their 
friends cannot fail to give fatisfaction. 
Ti is oniy to be lamented, that the men 
ef enlightened minds in Bavaria and 
ioine other provinces of Gerthany muft 
de confidered as only exceptions of 
the generai rule, and that a very great 
majority there, as well as elfewhere, are 
are fo ceeply immerfed in bigotry and 
fuverftition, that no fucecefs can be ex- 
pected from fome late attempts that 
have again been made to bring about 
an union between Catholics and Pro- 
teftants, or even a nearer approximation 
and affimilation, fuchas has been pro- 
_ pofed by Profeilor ScHLEcEL of Greifs- 
wiaid.) Much eafier,on the other hand, 
might it now be to effet a cealition be- 
twixt the two chief parties into which 
tne Prorefttants of Germany are divid- 
ed; if, befides the prejudices of. the 
Retrofpett of German Literature.—«Theology, ee, 
common people, difputes about] the 
poffeffion of church-eftates and other 
extraneous circumftances, rather than 
differences about dogmatical points, 
did not ftand in the way of this defira~ 
ble event; as, for inftance, lately was 
the cafe at Bremen. Of the works on 
this fubject we hall only notiée that of 
the above-mentioned Mr. Plank, “ tiver 
die Trennung und Wiedervereinigung 
der getrennten Chriftlichen Haupt-par- 
teyeri, &c.”—On the Separation and 
Re-union of the principal Chriftian 
Se&s, with an Hiftorital View of the 
Circumftances which gave Rife to the 
Separation of the Lutherans and Calvi 
nifts in Germany, and of the attempts 
thathave been made to reunite them ; in 
which work the author lays down fome 
excellent rules, drawn from hiftory, for 
gradually paving the way for the ac- 
complifhment of this difficult enterprize: 
and that entitled *“* Gedanken uber ein 
Kirchenverein,” by Braver, Prefi- 
dent of the Ecclefiaftical Council in 
Baden, where this union of the various 
religious parties is now profhoted by 
the governinent. 
In other refpects, as we have al- 
ready obferved above; with refpect.to a 
majority of the teachers, no obftacle 
feems to ftand in the way of this coali- 
tion. The German public have long 
been accuftomed to make little or ne 
diitinétion betwixt the writings of Lu« 
theran and Calvinift divines, on dog- 
matics or morality i except in as far as 
the authors were or were not partizans _ 
of the new philofophy, the influence of 
which is now particularly vifible in the 
manner of treating of thefe two latter 
divifions of theological fcience, which 
during the laft year had been cultivat- 
ed with zealous emulation. 
Wrhilft Ecreramann, of Kiel, con- 
tinued his ** Handbuch fir das geiehrte 
und fyftematifche Studium der Chrift- 
lichen Glaubenslehre,”—-Compendium 
for the Scientific and Syftematic Study 
of Chriftian Dogmatics, the fourth and 
concluding volume of which was now 
publifhed; and RutimMann, of Rin- 
teln, continued his ** Chriftiiche Reli- 
gionslehre”—Chriftian Doétrine”; Am- 
MON, Of Gottingen, and the above- 
mentioned Bauer, of Altdorf, favoured 
us likewife with Compendiums of Dog- 
matics in the Latin language: the lat- 
ter,a “ Breviarium Theologiz Biblice ;"* 
and the former, a ‘* Summa Theologia 
Chriftiane,” which differs from his 
‘ Entwurf erner wiffent. prakt. Theol.” 
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