On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
Five speeches in defence of religion addressed to the educated who despised it, first published in 1799. Schleiermacher places religion in intuition and feeling, apart from metaphysics and morals, and ends with an account of the positive religions and of Christianity.
Read the text at ccel.org ↗Scan of Oman’s translation, London 1893 (Internet Archive) ↗
The five speeches are a defence, an account of the nature of religion, a speech on its cultivation, one on church and priesthood, and one on the religions. Schleiermacher revised the book twice, and the wording differs between editions: Oman’s extracts from the first edition speak of religion as “intuition and feeling” and of “intuition of the Universe”. The translation quoted in this wiki is of the third edition, so a quotation from the body of a speech gives the wording of 1821; the wording of 1799 is quoted only from Oman’s appendix on the first edition.
It is cited in Schleiermacher and Modern Theology for his argument.
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- 1799, firm date