On Religion: Speeches To Its Cultured Despisers
On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers
Friedrich Schleiermacher, a Protestant theologian, philosopher, and educator, who wrote On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (1799), ventured into Christian dogmatics in a non-conventional yet avant-garde manner. His new approach to critically analyzing religion signaled the beginning of the era of Protestant Liberal Theology whilst simultaneously placing his book among the "classic" substantive works that speaks to "religion and Christian faith" (Schleiermacher vii).
Schleiermacher, sometimes called the "father of modern theology," believes shreds of faith are present in knowing (doctrine) and doing (ethical action), but it is most fully encapsulated by a kind of "feeling" or intuition, the "feeling (consciousness) of absolute dependence."
Faith belongs to two levels: the foremost, which is the "immediate" self-consciousness and the second, which is the "sensible" self-consciousness (Schleiermacher 36). The......
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