Abstract
Abstract Schleiermacher’s On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers of 1799 is a unique milestone in the history of modern theology, and this for two reasons. First, the book makes “religion”—as a phenomenon of life, not of doctrine—the field of theological discourse. And second, in “religion” there is an immediate access to reality in general, which also founds philosophical investigations of the competence of reason. Schleiermacher argues for this using the rhetorical style of Enlightenment rationality, pursuing the Enlightenment’s aims of deepening insight into the function of reason and of broadening its competence for understanding the world. Schleiermacher’s notion of religion also opens the space for the empirical study of religion.
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