Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834) · Academics · Died at 65
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Something wrong?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.
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Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
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Berliner Wespen 1868 - Zum Schleiermacher-Fest
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DBP-B Friedrich Schleimacher 20 Pf 1957In their own words 5
, 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.
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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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