Born in Breslau, Germany in 1768, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher’s focus of study throughout school was religion and the significance it had on human life. When he was 15 years old, his parents sent him to boarding school, which was the Moravian Church. While here, Schleiermacher felt that he did not fit in and began to question his own faith. After he decided to leave the Moravian school, he became highly interested in the Enlightenment ideals, as well as a handful of romantic writers at the University of Halle. After spending two years at the University of Halle studying philosophy, he became a Reformed pastor. During this time, he thoroughly acquainted himself with the works of German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, whom Schleiermacher
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It began as a reaction to the stale religious belief of the traditional institutional churches. It forced religion out of state sponsored churches and into underground groups. Published in 1799, one of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s earliest books, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is majorly influenced by Pietism. He argued for a conjectural change in how religious experience was acknowledged and that it should be guaranteed. Schleiermacher really stresses the role of community in religious experience. In the second speech of On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, he asserts that, “Religious experience maintains its own sphere and its own character only by completely removing itself from the sphere and character of speculation as well as from that of praxis.” Not only does this claim illustrate Pietism, but it also illustrates Romanticism as well. Romanticism is defined as a movement that emphasized the inspiration, subjectivity, and the importance of the individual. The early phase of the Romantic period began in 1792 and ended around the year of 1802. Friedrich Schleiermacher joined German philosophers, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Gottfried Herder, along with Francophone Genevan philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. These prominent thinkers all critiqued Immanuel Kant, particularly Schleiermacher, who did not like Kant’s understanding of freedom and religion. …show more content…
Before relocating to Berlin, he quietly argued with the idea of modernity, but now from being in a modern city, he affirmed his love for modern literature, art and social life; and had no difficulties with modern science. Schleiermacher is able to adjudicate successfully between supernatural theology and naturalism, which showed theologians that they too can accept modern science while defending religion. He created a space for where modern feelings and traditional views of Christianity can coexist. As these modern times develop, he conceives the plan of modernizing religion with the new findings of science. Schleiermacher’s views on modernity were greatly influenced by his three daughters and one son. Although his son died at the age of nine, he truly cared about the outcome of the new comings of modernity. He became the co-founder of Berlin University and also a pivotal figure in establishing the Berlin Academy of Sciences. By doing this, he achieved his goal of making it possible for the uneducated to be educated by scholarly
It began as a reaction to the stale religious belief of the traditional institutional churches. It forced religion out of state sponsored churches and into underground groups. Published in 1799, one of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s earliest books, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is majorly influenced by Pietism. He argued for a conjectural change in how religious experience was acknowledged and that it should be guaranteed. Schleiermacher really stresses the role of community in religious experience. In the second speech of On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, he asserts that, “Religious experience maintains its own sphere and its own character only by completely removing itself from the sphere and character of speculation as well as from that of praxis.” Not only does this claim illustrate Pietism, but it also illustrates Romanticism as well. Romanticism is defined as a movement that emphasized the inspiration, subjectivity, and the importance of the individual. The early phase of the Romantic period began in 1792 and ended around the year of 1802. Friedrich Schleiermacher joined German philosophers, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Gottfried Herder, along with Francophone Genevan philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. These prominent thinkers all critiqued Immanuel Kant, particularly Schleiermacher, who did not like Kant’s understanding of freedom and religion. …show more content…
Before relocating to Berlin, he quietly argued with the idea of modernity, but now from being in a modern city, he affirmed his love for modern literature, art and social life; and had no difficulties with modern science. Schleiermacher is able to adjudicate successfully between supernatural theology and naturalism, which showed theologians that they too can accept modern science while defending religion. He created a space for where modern feelings and traditional views of Christianity can coexist. As these modern times develop, he conceives the plan of modernizing religion with the new findings of science. Schleiermacher’s views on modernity were greatly influenced by his three daughters and one son. Although his son died at the age of nine, he truly cared about the outcome of the new comings of modernity. He became the co-founder of Berlin University and also a pivotal figure in establishing the Berlin Academy of Sciences. By doing this, he achieved his goal of making it possible for the uneducated to be educated by scholarly