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Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(frē'drĭkh dä'nyĕl ĕrnst shlī'Әrmäkh´´Әr), 1768–1834, German Protestant theologian, b. Breslau. He broke away from the Moravian Church and studied at Halle. Ordained in 1794, he accepted a post as a Reformed preacher in Berlin. There he came into contact with the German Romantic movement and became a friend of Friedrich Schlegel. In 1799 he published his eloquent Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers (tr. 1893). The work showed his closeness to the Romantics as well as the influence of his Pietist background. He defined religion as an absolute dependence on a monotheistic God, reached through intuition and independent of dogma. From 1804 to 1807, Schleiermacher taught at Halle. When war led to the closing of that university he returned to Berlin, where he was made professor in 1810. Through his stirring sermons he played a prominent part in the Prussian war against Napoleon. From 1819 he was occupied with his major work, The Christian Faith , published in 1821–22 (tr. of 2d ed. …
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Full text Article Schleiermacher, Friedrich (1768-1834)

From Encyclopedia of Philosophers on Religion
Originally an "enlightened" Reformed pastor and Prussian army chaplain, Schleiermacher’s father later experienced a spiritual reawakening in the company of the Pietistic Moravian community in Gnadenfrei. Schleiermacher himself, after undergoing a similar religious experience at the age of fourteen, …
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
German philosopher, a “critical realist” working among post-Kantian idealists. In philosophy and science he presupposed transcendental features, noted in his dialectic lectures, and advocated integrative but historically contingent empirical functions. Both develop, but, contra Hegel, not logically. …
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Full text Article SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH ERNST DANIEL 1768-1834

From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher, who was acquainted with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller and enjoyed the friendship of Wilhelm von Humboldt, played a critical role within the circles of the early Romantic movement. His importance falls into three broad…
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Full text Article HERMENEUTICS

From The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics
The 24-carat word ‘hermeneutics’ derives from the Greek god Hermeneia, who is charged with delivering messages for Zeus. Thus hermeneutics is concerned with understanding and interpreting texts. The notion became important after the Protestants decided they needed to reinterpret the Bible, …
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Full text Article Brunner, Emil

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Protestantism
(b. 1889–d. 1966) Neo-Orthodox Protestant theologian Emil Bruner was born on December 23, 1889, at Winterthur, Switzerland. He studied at the universities at Berlin and Zurich, receiving his doctorate in 1913. He then spent a year in England (1913–14) teaching high school in Leeds, before returning…
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Full text Article Schleiermacher, Friedrich

From Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
Widely regarded as the father of modern theology, Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) was also the main early modern theorist of religion , hermeneutics , and the critical arts and the classic translator of Plato ( ca 430– ca 345 BC). A co-founder of the University of Berlin, Schleiermacher was…
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Full text Article Schleiermacher, Friedrich

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Protestantism
(b. 1768–d. 1834) German Protestant theologian Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was born on November 21, 1768, at Breslau in Lower Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland), the son of a Reformed minister. He took his first formal theological studies with the Moravian Church at Herrnhut, and then in 1787…
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Full text Article Hermeneutics

From SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies
Definition: A term derived from the Greek hermeneia for ‘interpretation’, it has become an umbrella term for all interpretive approaches to social science. Historically, the importance of hermeneutics was highlighted at the time of the European Reformation when Protestants rejected the exclusivity…
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(frē'drĭkh dä'nyĕl ĕrnst shlī'Әrmäkh´´Әr), 1768–1834, German Protestant theologian, b. Breslau. He broke away from the Moravian Church and studied at Halle. Ordained in 1794, he accepted a post as a Reformed preacher in Berlin. There he came into contact with the German Romantic movement and became…
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From Dictionary of Visual Discourse: A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms
‘There are no moral facts, only moral interpretations of phenomena’ Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals , 1968a, II.12, III. 12; cf. Twilight of the Idols , 1998, VII. 1 Hermeneutics , from the Greek verb hermeneuein , to explain, clarify, translate, read, interpret (Hermes being the messenger - …
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