Author: PUSEY (Edward Bouverie):
Title: An Historical Enquiry into the Probable Causes of the Rationalist Character lately predominant in the Theology of Germany. To which is prefixed, A Letter from Professor Sack upon the Rev. H. J. Rose's Discourses on German Protestantism; Translated from the German.
Description: London: Printed for C. & J. Rivington..., 1828. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 216 x 131 mms., pp. [vii] viii - xvi, xv [xvi blank], 186, contemporary half calf, title in gilt on spine, contemporary cloth in a Venn diagram design, and a binder's ticket for Martin of Calcutta on the rear paste-down end-paper A very good copy, with the autograph and date of Sidney Broad, Coll. Reg. Oxon (Queen's College, Oxford), 12. Xii. 33 9probably 1833) on the recto of the second front free end-paper. Pusey (1800 - 1882) spent over a year in Germany studying theology, the results of which are found in this book. ". He was encouraged to do this by his German friends who were very critical of the recently published lectures by Hugh James Rose on the same subject. Pusey consequently wrote more sympathetically. This, coupled with his rather obscure style, led to his being widely misunderstood. Whereas Rose had attributed the condition of German theology to the lack of credal formularies and episcopal government which protected the English church, Pusey attributed it to what he confusingly called 'dead orthodoxism', the aridity of Lutheran scholasticism, a phenomenon which he also detected in the Church of England. He consulted Newman and produced a 'Second part' in 1830, defending himself against suspicions of rationalism. Dissatisfied with the work himself, he withdrew it from sale a few years later. This did not prevent charges of early liberalism being made from time to time in his later life, and in his will he directed that the book should never be reprinted. It did not, however, damage his prospects" (ODNB).

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