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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.