Friedrich Schleiermacher

Question 1

Schleiermacher was a theologian who claimed that the ? of religion was based in personal experience.

Answer 1

Essence.

Question 2

Schleiermacher thought religious experience should be at the heart of faith and believed that every person has a ? of the ?, but that in many people this is ? by other concerns. Religious people are aware of this and try to develop it.

Answer 2

Consciousness.
Divine.
Obscured.

Question 3

Schleiermacher, reacting against the ? view of 18th century Germany, argued that religious experience is at the core of all religion and is “?-?”. In his view, experiences should have priority and the statements of belief should be ? to fit them.

Answer 3

Contemporary.
Self-authenticating.
Formulated.

Question 4

Schleiermacher called religion a “sense of taste for the ?” and “the feeling of absolute ?”. He believed that Christianity was the highest of the religions because, in Jesus Christ, there was the only example of someone with complete “?-?”, totally unobscured.

Answer 4

Infinite.
Dependence.
God-consciousness.

Question 5

Those who criticised Schleiermacher’s view thought that he put too much emphasis on the ?, reducing religion to ?

Answer 5

Subjective.

Emotion.