German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
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.
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—ma…
Sourced, dated quotes from Friedrich Schleiermacher
But the imparting of religion is not to be sought in books, like that of intellectual conceptions and scientific knowledge.
Miracle is simply the religious name for event. Every event, even the most natural and usual, becomes a miracle, as soon as the religious view of it can be the dominant.
Him pervaded the Cosmic Spirit, the Infinity was his beginning and his end, the Universe his only and everlasting love.
Between the beginning of our existence and our present life and aims there lies a time in which lust was the prevailing power; in which it conceived and brought forth sin.
Oh, that we had our eyes more and more steadily fixt on the risen Savior!
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