Shleiermacher says that continual salvation teaches that Christ is divine, and is still an active power. He also believes the religious subject is central to Theology through self-conscious reflection. Much of his work revived the interest in religion as an intellectual study and laid the ground work for future theologians. Schleiermacher talked a lot about the pious aspect of religion, maintaining that doctrines are reflections of the piety that emerges from the experience of redemption in the Christian community. Schleiermacher taught that a radical evil or a tragic flaw co-exists with the essential goodness of humanity.
Sin is thus empirically universal, possessing a tragic historical inevitability.
The Augustinian axiom, that God allows evil in order to bring greater good out of evil, is central to the systematic argument.