 Among the most important German thinkers within this radical philosophical tradition, and quite representative of its intellectual diversity, are Friedrich Wilhelm Stosch (1648–1704) and Theodor Ludwig Lau (1670–1740). Stosch was the son of a Reformed minister and court chaplain in Brandenburg and worked as a court secretary until ill-health forced him to resign in 1686. Stosch subsequently pursued philosophical interests and in 1692 published his sole known text, the Concordia rationis et fidei (Concord of Reason and Faith). In spite of its title, the Concord seeks to subordinate the claims of faith to the canons of reason, in accordance with a broadly Socinian outlook, and Stosch denies that there is any basis in reason for conviction in the natural immortality of the soul (for which he also provides a materialist account), and rejects the reasonableness of eternal damnation. Stosch’s Concord was published anonymously (with Amsterdam listed as the place of publication) with only 100 copies printed, but when these were discovered for sale, they were seized and burned. Stosch was forced to identify himself as the author, was arrested, and subsequently investigated by a committee consisting of, among others, Pufendorf, concluding with Stosch’s public retraction of the book in 1694.