A clear, concise look at how modern theology centers on the believer’s relationship with God.
This volume surveys how Schleiermacher reshaped Christianity’s core by making personal religious experience and the consciousness of God central to faith, building on Kant and the German theoretical tradition.
Scholars here explain how Schleiermacher moves beyond earlier rationalist aims, presenting redemption as the liberation of God-consciousness within the soul. The discussion contrasts his views with other approaches, showing how redemption becomes a personal, lived transformation through Jesus and the Church.
- How Schleiermacher defines religion as the awakening of the God-consciousness in humans.
- Why redemption centers on inner harmony and the control of lower impulses through a divine relationship.
- The dialogue between Kant, Hegel, and Schleiermacher in shaping modern theology.
- How this history connects to broader questions about Christ, redemption, and religious experience.
Ideal for readers of theology, church history, and the development of modern Christian thought.