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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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“Klee and Feininger were rather backward-orientated,” Steffen Schleiermacher, a pianist who has researched and recorded music of the Bauhaus, said in an interview.

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The popularity of this insight, in turn, leads back to the study of Friedrich Schleiermacher, the theologian who first developed it as a basis of Christian faith.

From Time Magazine Archive

Theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher suggested the existence of a lost collection of Jesus' sayings that he called the Logia.

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A product of both the Enlightenment and Germany's Romantic revival, Schleiermacher saw clearly that the traditional bases for faith in God were gradually being eroded by man's intellectual advances.

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The late Paul Tillich argued for the existence of God as an inwardly felt "ground of being," and readily acknowledged his debt to Schleiermacher.

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