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 most obvious reason for the revival of interest in his work is that the "passional" experience of religion�as Schleiermacher called it�makes more sense to modern man than a purely intellectual one.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whenever any intelligent unit in that Cosmos looks up to Him as something greater than itself, under what Schleiermacher describes as “a sense of infinite dependence,” and utters its need, it has expressed its religion.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill
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