Schleiermacher
Americannoun
noun
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A cohort of German Protestant thinkers such as Friedrich Schleiermacher theorized religion similarly—change was now progress, and liberal society clearly the heir to medieval religion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“Klee and Feininger were rather backward-orientated,” Steffen Schleiermacher, a pianist who has researched and recorded music of the Bauhaus, said in an interview.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019
In 1807, a German scholar named Friedrich Schleiermacher published a letter observing that 1 Timothy used arguments that clashed with other letters written by Paul.
From Newsweek
The son of a Prussian army chaplain, Schleiermacher studied theology and philosophy at the University of Halle, was ordained a Reformed minister.
From Time Magazine Archive
The materials were furnished by Schleiermacher, Spinoza, Jacobi, Schelling; the architectural skill was his own.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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