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Book SynopsisRichard Crouter illustrates how Schleiermacher's work draws from both the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The book's three sections include illuminating sketches of Schleiermacher's relationship to contemporaries, his work as a public theologian, and the formation and impact of his two most famous books, On Religion and The Christian Faith.
Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Crouter's book is important for tracing the evolution of Schleiermacher's thought. … Crouter has long harboured a wish to write a biography of Schleiermacher, and his knowledge of the factors that shaped his life and thought make this book a valuable guide to understanding him.' Church Times
'Crouter's essays are much more than occasional papers. Each is thoroughly researched and densely noted; Crouter's command of both the primary and secondary Schleiermacher literature is prodigious. Yet, for all their scholarly heft and discipline, these essays are charming, witty and graceful.' German Studies Review
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Taking the Measure of Schleiermacher: 1. Revisiting Dilthey on Schleiermacher and biography; 2. Schleiermacher, Mendelssohn and Enlightenment theology: comparing On Religion (1799) and Jerusalem (1783); 3. Hegel and Schleiermacher in Berlin: a many-sided debate; 4. Kierkegaard's not so hidden debt to Schleiermacher; Part II. Signposts of a Public Theologian: 5. Schleiermacher's Letters on the Occasion and the crisis of Berlin Jewry; 6. A proposal for a new Berlin University; 7. Schleiermacher and the theology of bourgeois society: a critique of the critics; Part III. Textual Readings and Milestones: 8. Schleiermacher's theory of language: the ubiquity of a romantic text; 9. Shaping an academic discipline: the Brief Outline on the Study of Theology; 10. Rhetoric and substance in the revision of The Christian Faith (1821–2); 11. On Religion as a religious classic: hermeneutical musings after two hundred years.
