4 Quotes & Sayings By Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher was a German theologian and philosopher. He is considered the father of modern theology, and his work has profoundly influenced religious thought, language, and culture. The first great interpreter of the Vedas, he developed the concept of Vedanta as the one true, eternal religion of humanity. As a literary critic, he is known for his "Aesthetic Theory", which has influenced thinkers as diverse as Goethe, Hölderlin, Benjamin Franklin, John Ruskin, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Read more

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Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs. Friedrich Schleiermacher
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If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and thus even now for each individual the Christian Church is earlier than theology. Friedrich Schleiermacher
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The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. Friedrich Schleiermacher