White Horse Inn Schleiermacher: The Man Behind Protestant Liberalism
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Nov 9, 2025 Dive into the life of Friedrich Schleiermacher, the 'Father of Modern Liberal Theology.' Discover how Romanticism and personal doubt influenced his ideas. Explore his views on the emotional foundations of faith, contrasting them with rational philosophies like Hegel's. Unpack his belief in a pantheistic God-consciousness and how it redefined sin and atonement. The discussion links Schleiermacher's impact to contemporary worship trends and emphasizes the importance of objective faith over subjective experience.
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Modernizing Christianity For Romantic Culture
- Friedrich Schleiermacher rose from pietist roots and intellectual doubt to recast Christianity for Romantic culture.
- He framed theology around human religious experience rather than propositional doctrine.
Experience Replaces Doctrinal Knowing
- Schleiermacher responded to Kant by claiming God is known primarily through immediate religious experience.
- He placed human subjectivity and 'God-consciousness' at the center of theology.
Feeling Of Absolute Dependence
- The 'feeling of absolute dependence' becomes Schleiermacher's foundational prolegomenon for faith.
- Christ is the perfected instance of God-consciousness whose life others can share.
