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Schleiermacher

American  
[shlahy-uhr-mah-khuhr] / ˈʃlaɪ ərˌmɑ xər /

noun

  1. Friedrich Ernst Daniel 1768–1834, German theologian and philosopher.


Schleiermacher British  
/ ˈʃlaiərˌmaxər /

noun

  1. Friedrich Ernst Daniel (ˈfriːdrɪç ɛrnst ˈdaːnjeːl). 1768–1834, German Protestant theologian and philosopher. His works include The Christian Faith (1821–22)

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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 in his dialectic regards logic from the standpoint of epistemological realism, in which the real deliverances of the senses are conceptually transformed by the spontaneous activity of reason.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

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