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TitleOn religion : Speeches to its cultured despisers / Friedrich Schleiermacher; translated and edited by Richard Crouter [electronic resource]
AuthorSchleiermacher, Friedrich. / Crouter, Richard.
Call NoDTL 200.1 SCH
CollectionEbook
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International Standard Book Number 9780511814969
Dewey Decimal Classification Number DTL 200.1 SCH
Personal Name Schleiermacher, Friedrich.
Title Statement On religion : Speeches to its cultured despisers / Friedrich Schleiermacher; translated and edited by Richard Crouter [electronic resource]
Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Physical Description eBook
Series Statement - Title Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
General Note Translation of 3rd German ed. of: Ueber die Religion: Reden an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verachtern.
Summary, Etc. Schleiermacher's addresses on religion to the cultured critics of his time comprise one of those rare works of literature that masterfully initiate an epoch but long continue to realize an influence far transcending their original effect. They comprise a masterpiece not only of personal testimony but of intelligent witness to that which is most lasting and fundamental, though often most elusive and difficult to achieve, in human life and culture. Religion presumable constitutes the most important set of relationships that can be cultivated in a person. Yet religion is often the most readily misunderstood and maligned. Schleiermacher's aim in these addresses is to penetrate the excrescences and the corruptions of so-called religion to reach its vital heart so as to clarify what religion essentially is, to suggest how it is to be found, to consider how it may be cultivated, and perhaps also to stimulate a responding chord of sensitively and devotion among his hearers. He is not trying to put something over on anyone. In tolerant, open-hearted response to familiar attitudes he is simply replying, again and again: "Is the situation really what you say? Consider this!" Or: "Yes, you are entirely correct, but that is not religion. You are looking in the wrong place." Or: "You are moving in the right direction but in the wrong way."
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term RELIGION - PHILOSOPHY.
Added Entry, Personal Name Crouter, Richard.
Electronic Location and Access http://thedtl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/817913339 DTL ePlatform Full text - Book opens through link in DTL DTL