He did yeoman service in breaking down the high Lutheran Confessionalism which had been the order of the day.
"Edward Caldwell Moore Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant"
Edward Moore
Schaff criticizes: "Religion was confounded with theology, piety with orthodoxy, and orthodoxy with an exclusive Confessionalism."
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente
But this Siegwart, this clerical ultramontane fellow-it is incompatible; mental progress and middle-age darkness, spiritual enlightenment and stark Confessionalism-it won't do.
"The Progressionists, and Angela."
Conrad von Bolanden