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Doellinger is a Church historian whom even the Bishop of Durham cannot afford to ignore, as, in his own field of study, he has, perhaps, no peer in existence, and yet he here states explicitly, not certainly that Jerome was extremely ignorant of early Christian literature, but that, in this very department, he was specially well informed.
The Gorham Case The Curzon Street Resolutions The 'Papal Aggression' Commotion Correspondence of Mr. Hope and Mr. Manning Their Conversion Opinions of Friends on Mr. Hope's Conversion Mr. Gladstone Father Roothaan, F.G. Soc. Jes., to Count Senfft Dr. Doellinger Mr. Hope to Mr. Badeley Conversion of Mr. W. Palmer. To return to the Gladstone correspondence which we quitted some pages back.
Of numerous recent poets, Lenau and Freiligrath are among the few best esteemed. German researches have been carried into every region of the past. In Egyptology, Lipsius, Bunsen, Brugsch, and Ebers are leading authorities. Neander, Gieseler, Baur, Doellinger, Hefele, Alzog, Harnack, Janssen, and Pastor are writers on ecclesiastical history.
That is for the future: for the present we have to endure, to trust, and to pray that each day may bring its strength with its burden, and its lamp for its gloom. Ever yours with unaltered affection, J. R. Hope, Esq. The following letter, written on the same occasion by another celebrated person, will be read with a very painful interest: The Rev. Dr. Doellinger to J. R. Hope, Esq., Q.C.
Doellinger, "so widely spread in the world of old, the delusion that no service more acceptable could be rendered a deity than that of unchastity, was deeply rooted in the Asiatic mind.
In a letter dated Baden-Baden, October 30, 1845, Mr. Gladstone, after mentioning his having been at Munich, where, through an introduction from Mr. Hope, he had made the acquaintance of Dr. Doellinger, criticises at some length Moehler's 'Symbolik, which he had been reading on Mr. Hope's recommendation. I must quote the conclusion of the letter in his own words:
I found in the Sermon on the Mount leading enough for my ethical guidance, in the life and death of the Man of Galilee inspiration enough to fulfill my heart's desire; and though I have read a great deal of modern inquiry from Renan and Huxley through Newman and Doellinger, embracing debates before, during and after the English upheaval of the late fifties and the Ecumenical Council of 1870, including the various raids upon the Westminster Confession, especially the revision of the Bible, down to writers like Frederic Harrison and Doctor Campbell I have found nothing to shake my childlike faith in the simple rescript of Christ and Him crucified.
"OLD CATHOLICS." Most of those who had strenuously endeavored to prevent this action, either because they considered it inexpedient, or disbelieved in the doctrine which it established, acquiesced in the decision of the council. There were some persevering dissentients, however, in Germany especially, of whom Dr. Doellinger was the most distinguished.
Patrick, and this claim has been alive all along from the Reformation, so that lapse of years does nothing against it." The name of Dr. Doellinger, the distinguished reformed Roman Catholic, has been mentioned already in connection with that of Mr. Gladstone. In the fall of 1845 Mr. Gladstone went to Munich and paid his first visit to Dr. Doellinger.
Doellinger whilst that learned divine was discussing with him the question of Church and State. Dr. Doellinger was expressing his surprise that Mr. Gladstone could possibly coquette in any way with the party that demanded the severance of Church and State in either Wales or Scotland.
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