Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
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Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher 🇵🇱

Friedrich Schleiermacher (Known as "Father of Modern Liberal Theology")
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Born Nov 21, 1768 🇵🇱 Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia
Passed Away Feb 12, 1834 Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Lifespan 65 years old
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"Religion's essence is neither thinking nor acting, but intuition and feeling—the consciousness of absolute dependence upon God."

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German Reformed theologian and philosopher whose 'On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers' and 'The Christian Faith' grounded religion in the intuitive feeling of absolute dependence.

Biographical Record

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834 CE) was raised among the Moravian Brethren before engaging Berlin's Romantic circle of Friedrich Schlegel.

He rescued religious thought from both dry scholastic dogmatism and Enlightenment rationalism by arguing that true religion is neither dogma nor ethics, but an immediate inner experience of the infinite.

Key Life Milestones

1799

On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

Published his brilliant defense of faith to Enlightenment skeptics, locating religion in intuition and feeling.

1821

The Christian Faith (Der christliche Glaube)

Completed his masterwork defining Christianity through the consciousness of redemption through Jesus Christ.

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Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof II
Berlin, Germany
GPS: 52.4917, 13.3917
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