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Although Reu often claimed a special indebtedness to the philosophy and psychology of J. F. Herbart and to the theological constructs of J. C. K. von Hofmann, leader of the Erlangen school of German Protestant theological thought, no systematic attempt had been made to examine the extent of his dependence upon the hermeneutical presuppositions of either.","This study undertook: (1) to compare Reu's educational hermeneutic with that of Herbart for areas of ontology, epistemology, axiology, and anthropology; (2) to compare Reu's theological hermeneutic with those of Erlangen theologians Hofmann, F. H. R. von Frank, and Theodor von Zahn for areas of epistemology, anthropology, and ecclesiology; and (3) to discover which elements of Reu's epistemological and anthropological positions from his educational and his theological hermeneutic are consistently present in his thought. 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