Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Life and Times; CHAPTER TWO Schleiermacher's Worldview; Kant; The Generation Following Kant; Schleiermacher's Dialectic; Ethics; CHAPTER THREE Hermeneutics; The Basics; Issues in Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics; The Expressivist Self; CHAPTER FOUR On Religion; The Standard Reading; The Sources of this Reading; A Better Reading; CHAPTER FIVE Mediating Theology; What Is Theology?; The Field of Theology; Christology; Introduction to Christian Faith; Sin and Redemption. CHAPTER SIX Schleiermacher as Political Activist1Setting and Conspiracy; Lectures on the State; Links to Christology; Political Sermons; The Prussian Correspondent; Church/State Relations; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
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Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher stands in the very first rank of Christian systematic theologians with Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, and Karl Barth and has been dubbed as the 'Father of Modern Theology'. The beginning of the era of liberal theology that dominated Protestant thought at least until the First World War is commonly dated to the publication of Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers in 1799. His influence extends far beyond theology. He was a pioneer in education, the philosophy of language and hermeneutics. There has been a resurgence of interest in S.