I found this on the Interwebs today, along with a plethora of other gems (including vols. 1-78 of the Theologische Quartalschrift in PDF format), over at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (WELS):
For whatever may have been the significance of this theology of the Old School of Erlangen, it had certain faults that, in spite of the stature of its exponents as men and scholars, made it impossible that there should come from it a lasting renewal of the Lutheran Church. They had not been able to keep away from the seductive poison of Schleiermacher subjectivism. In spite of all their efforts to hold fast to the objective truths of revelation, this method that took its cue from Schleiermacher inevitably led to fateful consequences. The close of the century showed clearly what keen-eyed contemporaries had detected at the time. If “I, the Christian, am for me, the theologian, the real object for systematic-theological observations,” then no power on earth can preserve such a theology from the fate of becoming a Science of the Good Man, a Science of Religion.
Hermann Sasse, “On the Problem of the Relation Between the Ministry and the Congregation” (1950), trans. E. Reim
