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 late Paul Tillich argued for the existence of God as an inwardly felt "ground of being," and readily acknowledged his debt to Schleiermacher.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later on German theology and the works of Kant, Neander and Schleiermacher produced a far-reaching effect.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
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