Friedrich Schleiermacher
Subtitle: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism (Cambridge Studies in Religion & Critical Thought)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780521805902
Subjects: Religion: general; Religion; Religion - Socialissues; Schleiermacher, Friedrich,; General; History & Surveys - Modern; Religion / General; 1768-1834
First sentence: In his monumental yet never completed (or translated) biography, Life of Schleiermacher (1870), Wilhelm Dilthey maintained that, unlike Kant, Schleiermacher's significance can only be grasped through his biography.
Description: Friedrich Schleiermacher's groundbreaking work in theology and philosophy was forged in the cultural ferment of Berlin at the convergence of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The three sections of this book include illuminating sketches of Schleiermacher's relationship to contemporaries, his work as a public theologian, as well as the formation and impact of his two most famous books, On Religion and The Christian Faith. Richard Crouter's essays examine the theologian's stance regarding the status of doctrine, church and political authority, and the place of theology among the academic disciplines.