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  • Encouraged by the romantic circle to write a statement of his religious views, in 1799 he published his most important and radical work in the philosophy of religion, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (revised editions: 1806, 1821, the latter including significant “explanations,” and 1831).

    Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Forster, Michael 2002

  • Schleiermacher's most important and radical work in the philosophy of religion is his On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers of 1799.

    Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Forster, Michael 2002

  • This neo-Spinozistic position would subsequently be fundamental to Schleiermacher's most important work in the philosophy of religion, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers (1799).

    Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Forster, Michael 2002

  • Despisers of life are they, decaying ones and poisoned ones themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so away with them!

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • Friedrich Schleiermacher published his urbane and eloquent book, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers, in Berlin in 1799.

    Philocrites: March 1998 Archives 1998

  • Friedrich Schleiermacher published his urbane and eloquent book, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers, in Berlin in 1799.

    Philocrites: Schleiermacher on true religious fellowship. 1998

  • He rose to fame following the publication of his Speeches on Religion to its Cultural Despisers (1799) where he defines RELIGION as the "feeling" or "sense" of ABSOLUTE dependence and separates the study of religion from SCIENCE and other academic disciplines.

    Concise Dictionary of Religion 1993

  • Despisers of God will prove despisers of their own salvation.

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • Despisers of its fruits in holiness shall never have the least interest in its fruits in righteousness.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • During the next year he published anonymously the work that first brought him fame, Discourses on Religion to the Educated among Its Despisers, of which we shall speak again.

    The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith" 1862-1929 1911

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