Abstract:
Friedrich Schleiermacher, by describing the essence of religion as a phenomenon that is not the result of knowledge—whether scientific or philosophical—nor should it be sought in a moral sense or considered the result of any reasoning, has had a lasting and fresh impact on Protestant theology. In his view, the essence of religion is found in a specific religious feeling, which is the feeling of absolute dependence. He believes that the fruitless philosophy of religion presented in 'Deism' and the dogmas reported by the church are not, in fact, religion. True religion is the immediate intuition of the collective existence of the entire finite world within and through that infinite existence, and the perception of all temporal things in an eternal existence. True religion is the feeling and tasting of this infinite existence.
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Schleiermacher and Religious Experience Dr. Mojtaba Zarvani* Abstract By describing the essence of religion as a phenomenon that is not the result of knowledge—whether scientific or philosophical—nor should it be sought in a moral sense, and should not be considered the result of any argumentation, Friedrich Schleiermacher left a lasting and fresh impact on Protestant theology.
Keywords Religious experience; absolute dependence; theology; Schleiermacher; religion.
Schleiermacher's important work in attributing religion to the realm of feeling is the starting point of modern Christian Protestantism in its emphasis on "interiority"12 and his insistence on the point that knowledge of God is an internal, experiential, and universal matter.
This feeling, which is the essence of what Schleiermacher calls "religious consciousness," is called more precisely "the feeling of absolute dependence" in his next book, "Christian Faith".
This system of universal nature, meaning the world in its most pervasive and extensive manifestation, is the main subject in the feeling of absolute dependence (Schleiermacher, 1963, p.
In his view, all humans possess this sense that the world is a regular whole, and in his view, this very sense means awareness of the existence of God. Self-awareness, according to Schleiermacher, also means awareness of oneself in relation to the object of identification, which is a different matter.
This interpretation cannot resolve the ambiguity of Schleiermacher's theory; because the sense of absolute dependence is not necessarily directed toward God, but may belong to that world, and Clement's explanation bypasses this question without answering it.
By pointing to experience and the feeling of absolute dependence and denying the other relationship, he also preserved "tradition" by emphasizing God's saving work in Christ.
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