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
Gilkey agrees with Boston College Philosopher David Rasmussen that, for Catholicism, Lonergan may be the liberating force that Friedrich Schleiermacher was for 19th century Protestantism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Schleiermacher had as many disciples among the Congregationalists as among their antagonists of the opposite school.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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