A century after Jacobi’s death in 1819, the war-shocked Weimar Republic and neighboring countries reeled with what Weller calls cultural vertigo, a sense that something vital to society had been lost, potentially permanently. As part of a response to this sense of crisis, German-speaking (and other) Europeans explored “a range of resacralizing modernist projects,” in Weller’s phrase. Many of these projects essentially involved new versions of German romantic re-enchantment aims, and many also intertwined with a new round of enthusiasm for Spinozan and Spinozistic ideas which also returned in force to German-speaking Europe in this era. At the same time, the Christian “crisis theology” of the Swiss theologian Karl Barth emerged on the scene with a radically different response to the time, parts of which reprised some of Jacobi’s positions in a new way. The contrast between crisis theology and the resurgence of Spinozism produced what historian B. Lazier calls a return of the Spinoza Controversy’s “configuration” to the world of German letters.