IF a book can signal the beginning of an era, then Schleiermacher’s On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers marks the beginning of the era of Protestant Liberal Theology. By normal reckoning that era lasted about one hundred twenty years and came to . Young Friedrich Schleiermacher was a Reformed Calvinist Chaplain in Berlin when he wrote his first major work, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers. Comprised of five speeches on religion, Schleiermacher's book was largely influenced by several rationalist philosophers that Schleiermacher had studied. Schleiermacher argued that religion was rooted in human feelings, . Even then it may not win your love, and otherwise I cannot hope for any unanimity about the meaning of religion or any recognition of its worth. I could wish to exhibit religion in some well known form, reminding you, by feature, carriage and deportment, of what here and there at least you have seen in life. Religion, however, as I wish to show.
On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers; A Defence of Nature of Faith; Its History; Anthropology and Cultivation in Man - John Oman - Friedrich Schleiermacher reveals his philosophical attitudes to religion, and mounts a defense and justification for. The German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher () tried to defend religion against detractors and cynics of his day. This led him to write On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers ().. Schleiermacher observed that religion was encountering opposition within culture and especially from the more educated people (whom Schleiermacher criticized as the "all-too-knowing ones. Schleiermacher's most radical and important work in the philosophy of religion is On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers from (Later editions of this work, and the later theological treatise The Christian Faith, strive for greater Christian orthodoxy, and are consequently as a rule less interesting from a philosophical point.
These men, the crazy buttresses of a crumbling time, I distinguish from you, even as you would not have yourselves made equal with them, for they do not despise religion, and they are not to be called cultured. But they destroy religion as much as they can, and they train the age and enlighten men, even to transparency, if they had their will. They are still the dominating party, and you and we are but a very few. Young Friedrich Schleiermacher was a Reformed Calvinist Chaplain in Berlin when he wrote his first major work, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers. Comprised of five speeches on religion, Schleiermacher's book was largely influenced by several rationalist philosophers that Schleiermacher had studied. Schleiermacher argued that religion was rooted in human feelings, describing the core of religion as "a sense and taste for the Infinite in the finite.". Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is a classic of modern Protestant religious thought that powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. This edition presents the original text in English for the first time.
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