On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

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On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers is a foundational 1799 work of modern Protestant theology in which Friedrich Schleiermacher defends the essence of religious experience to skeptical, educated audiences of his time.

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instanceOf Christian theology book
book
theological work
aim to defend the value of religious consciousness
to reinterpret religion for modern cultured people
audience cultured despisers of religion
educated skeptics
author Friedrich Schleiermacher
century 18th century
countryOfOrigin Germany
field philosophy of religion
systematic theology
firstPublicationPlace Berlin
genre religious philosophy
theology
hasEnglishTitle On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers self-link
hasEnglishTranslation On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers self-link
hasForm series of speeches
historicalPeriod Age of Enlightenment
early Romantic era
influenced liberal Protestant theology
modern theology of religious experience
philosophy of religion in the 19th century
keyConcept essence of religion distinct from metaphysics and morality
immediacy of religious intuition
religion as feeling of absolute dependence
language German
mainTheme defense of religion to skeptical educated audiences
notableFor critique of Enlightenment rationalism about religion
emphasis on subjective religious experience
foundational status in modern Protestant theology
originalTitle On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers self-linksurface differs
surface form: Über die Religion: Reden an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verächtern
philosophicalContext Jena Romanticism
surface form: German Romanticism

post-Kantian philosophy
publicationYear 1799
relatedWorkOfAuthor The Christian Faith
religiousPerspective Reformed Protestant
religiousTradition Protestantism
structure five speeches
subject apologetics
philosophy of religion
religion
religious experience
theology of feeling
theologicalMovement modern Protestant theology
timePeriodAddressed late 18th-century European intellectual culture

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Friedrich Schleiermacher notableWork On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers originalTitle On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Über die Religion: Reden an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verächtern
On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers hasEnglishTitle On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers self-link
On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers hasEnglishTranslation On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers self-link
The Christian Faith relatedWorkByAuthor On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers