Preface

to have Original: "haben". This continues the sentence from the previous page, completing the thought that the student should be enabled to "have" or "keep in view" the concepts mentioned. and to follow its further development, degeneration Original: "Entartung"; in this context, it refers to the corruption or decline of a doctrine from its original form., and rebirth in church history Church history: the academic study of the historical development of the Christian church, its institutions, and its doctrines with a critical eye, but also to prophesy, as it were, what course of development it will take in the future. The second part will hopefully appear at Easter 1814.

Berlin, March 1813.