Endnote 6 – Mad to See the Monuments
Despite the influential nature of these views, the reader should not come away with the notion that the German theological academy was entirely dominated by the works of the Neologists and Rationalists. Many conservative Protestant biblical scholars, particularly confessing Lutherans, took grave exception to these ideas, writing powerful attacks against the authors and, in some instances, securing the dismissals of their adversaries from German institutions of higher learning.