Description: This edition of a classic of modern Protestant religious thought powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. It presents the original 1799 text in English for the first time and contains ...
Synopsis This edition of a classic of modern Protestant religious thought powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. It presents the original 1799 text in English for the first time and contains a chronology and notes for further reading.
Details
Publication Date:
1994-07-01
Edition Description:
Reprint
Size
Height:
7.5 in
Width:
5.3 in
Thickness:
0.8 in
Weight:
12.0 oz
Publisher's Note On religion is a text that has more than historical interest. The "speeches" themselves provide a compelling defense of religion as an essential component in the lives of intellectually vital, cultured person. Religion, according to Schleiemacher, is the noblest ingredient of an authentic humanity.