The God of the Rationalists, Rationalism and Bible continue…
An accent on experience is associated with Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834). Schleiermacher was a child of the Romanticism which dawned as the eighteenth century ended. Romanticism was geared towards feelings, and Schleiermacher based his theology on religious experience. Kant had dismissed revealed truth, and this seemed to leave theologians nothing to rest on or work with. But Schleiermacher maintained that the gap could be filled by the Christian ‘God-consciousness’, the church’s shared sense of dependence on God through the God-filled man Jesus Christ. True theology is God-feelings put into words. Read more
