# Friedrich Schleiermacher

> He tried to save Christianity from the Enlightenment by rewriting its foundations—and ended up fathering modern liberal theology, a move so influential that Karl Barth spent much of the twentieth century trying to undo it.

*German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 1768-11-21
- **Died:** 1834-02-12
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was born on 21 November 1768 into German Reformed tradition, trained as a theologian and pastor at a moment when Enlightenment criticism was tearing at Protestant orthodoxy. His project was reconciliation: he set out to answer the skeptics without abandoning faith, and in doing so he reshaped how biblical texts could be read and interpreted. That work made him a pioneer of higher criticism and laid groundwork for modern hermeneutics, the art of interpretation itself. As a philosopher he rode the German Romantic wave, but it was his recasting of theology—making feeling and experience central—that earned him the title "Father of Modern Liberal Theology" and a long shadow over Christian thought. He died on 12 February 1834, leaving a legacy so large that the neo-orthodox movement, often linked to Karl Barth, defined itself partly as a rebellion against him.

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