Jowett's theological work was transitional, and yet has an element of permanence.
In the Yale Divinity School his influence was powerful, and in 1833 one of his foremost opponents, Bennet Tyler (1783-1858), founded in East Windsor a Theological Institute to offset Taylor's teaching at Yale.
The theological interest which attaches to the idea of the preAaronic king-priest in these typical applications is practically independent of the historical questions suggested by the narrative of Gen.
Wolff, in the intervals of his chequered theological career, lectured and wrote as a jurist upon the Law of Nature.
From this theological entanglement the problem of free will did not escape for long centuries.