sentences:  His basic point was that faith was based on reason, and “only that which can be accepted by reason can and should be accepted by faith”.Martensen refused to become involved in polemic with Eiríksson, and remained completely silent.This silence so irritated Eiríksson that in 1847 he wrote a letter to King Christian VII denouncing Martensen's silence as “inexcusable, dishonest and dishonorable”  and demanding that Martensen be relieved of his professorship at Copenhagen University.