Bible Knowledge Graph

On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

Entity ID:

on-religion-speeches-to-its-cultured-despisers-(schleiermach)

Long Name:

On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

Short Name:

On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

Disambiguation String:

five speeches on religion

Entity Type:

work

Entity Subtype:

book

Summary:

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." He understood religion as the human effort to communicate our experienced consciousness of the Divine within the human social sphere. As a result of his analysis, Schleiermacher was sensitive to the limitations of religion in the finite realm. The emergence of this book in 1799 marked the beginning of the era of Protestant Liberal Theology, and it offered a method of understanding religion that was refreshing for Schleiermacher's time.

Emmalon Davis
CCEL Staff Writer

DB Pedia ID:

On_Religion

Is An Individual:

No

Is Published:

Yes

Original Language:

eng

ISBN:

9781610251976

CCEL URL:

//ccel.org/ccel/schleiermach/religion.html

LC Subjects:

All;

Creators:

Creator: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Relator: aut, Creator ID: 15820