Christian thought in the modern world (from 1800 to the present)

Liberalism fundamentally adapts Christian theology to the contemporary world. Liberals are to keep up to date significant position ready to sacrifice many elements of the traditional Christian
orthodoxy. Friedrich Schleiermacher Romantic religion Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was born in 1768 in Wrocław and Silesia
(now Poland) in the family of a military evangelical clergyman. He got it pietistic education in the spirit of the * Spencer tradition; he later began studying in a pietistic theological seminary. Traditional, however, the thinking was unacceptable to him, and so he completed his religious education at the University of Halle. After his surgery, he mostly worked in Berlin. In addition to the work of the pastor of the Reformed Church, he helped found the University of Berlin, where he also became a professor of theology. As part of his pastoral work, he prepared, among other things, for confirmation of a great Prussian statesman Bismarck. He died in 1834.* Karl Barth aptly stated that Schleiermacher established a school of thought, but he began an era. He is the father not only of liberal but of all modern theology. Your opinions pronounced in two main works: About religion: Talk to his educated people mockers (Uber die Religion, Reden in the fields under your supervisor) 1799, can be understood as the first public appearance of liberal theology. (For theology, it lasts the 19th century from 1799 to the first World Wars.) In Speeches, Schleiermacher tried to defend theology against skep Sl; The concept of religion held by them is but brand new, was an important work of systematic theology. First published in 1821-1822, in revised edition 1830-1831. Talk of religion is about nature religion. Pietist education of Schleiermacher taught that faith more than mere theology and ethics, knowledge and negotiation, knowledge, and doing what is right. “Piety It can’t be just instinct and craving for food metaphysical and ethical crumbs. “Religiosity belongs to the third realm of feeling. “True religion makes sense and understanding of infinity. “What exactly does Schleiermacher say? Traditional pietistic the concept according to which it belongs to religion more than knowledge and action are not enough for him. He considers them to be something that differs from knowledge and action. To make it clear to you what is the original and typical wealth of religion: religion at the same time relinquishes all claims to anything that belongs to science or morality () Ideas and principles are foreign to it (…). If ideas and principles are to weigh anything, they must be part of the knowledge that imagines go a different area of ​​life than religion. (Speech 2) However, it does not follow that religion is unrelated to knowledge and action.”I do not claim that one could exist without the other that one would, for example, he could be a believer and pious and, at the same time, immoral.” On the contrary, religion is the real basis of both knowledge and action. Want real science or real practice without religion or thinking of something we have one, he is stubborn and conceited delusion and punishable error. (00.) Can man perform, whether in life or in art, something worth talking about without it in him grew out of a sense of infinity? (Speech 2) According to Schleiermacher, religion is something other than theology, which does not mean that theology has no justification. Doctrines and dogmas are not religions: “They are not necessary for them, and they will hardly be necessary even for its mediation. “Theology, however, it cannot be ignored, and if we want to think about religion, it is entirely appropriate. Although religion itself is not knowledge, there is such a thing as knowledge about religion theology. If anyone has reservations about religion because of the narrow-minded darkness of some theologians, then he has missed that religion and theology are two different things. Schleiermache’s approach meant something completely new. Pietistic view of that faith it is necessary to awaken and experience extremely sharpened the thesis that religion is only a feeling and an experience.
Faith in the sense of accepting the teachings is foreign to religion: “It is so distant to him that everyone whoever wants to push himself into the sanctuary of religion must reject it. “However, this means a new conception of Christianity. Before Schleiermacher, Christian theology was understood as a description of God’s event, as we find it in Scripture, tradition, nature or some combination thereof Schleiermacher made theology studies the religious experience of man. The word revelation gives whole new content. It happens the spiritual knowledge of each individual. “Every intuition and every original the feeling comes from ~ event. (…) If in nothing original has emerged yet, at the moment this happens, it will also be a revelation.” Schleiermacher opens the door of “Christianity”, which he no longer accepts Bible teaching as a binding yardstick and which it is no longer bound by external rules. The; thou dividing the line between Religiosity and theology fortified religion against attacks skeptics, however, in a way that somewhat preserved the form at the expense of others.