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The Christian Faith

1821–1822; second edition 1830–18313 min read

Friedrich Schleiermacher — The Christian Faith, translated from the second German edition (1830–1831) and edited by H. R. Mackintosh and J. S. Stewart (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1928).

The great systematic theology of the father of modern liberal theology, in which doctrine is the church’s account of the Christian’s God-consciousness, “the feeling of absolute dependence”, as Christ has shaped it. After an introduction on the church, on Christianity and on the method of dogmatics, the first part develops the religious self-consciousness that every Christian experience presupposes (creation, preservation, and the divine attributes of eternity, omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience); the second part sets out its two sides, the consciousness of sin (original and actual sin, the holiness and justice of God) and the consciousness of grace (the person and work of Christ, regeneration, sanctification, election, the church, the means of grace and the last things); and a conclusion treats the divine Trinity.

Copyright. Public domain in the US only; in copyright in the UK until 2060.

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Contents (62)

  1. Editors’ Preface
  2. Author’s Preface to the Second Edition
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter I. The Definition of Dogmatics
  5. Chapter I, I. The Conception of the Church
  6. Chapter I, II. The Diversities of Religious Communions in General
  7. Chapter I, III. Presentation of Christianity in Its Peculiar Essence
  8. Chapter I, IV. The Relation of Dogmatics to Christian Piety
  9. Chapter II. The Method of Dogmatics
  10. Chapter II, I. The Selection of the Dogmatic Material
  11. Chapter II, II. The Formation of the Dogmatic System
  12. First Part. The Religious Self-Consciousness Presupposed in Every Christian Affection
  13. First Part, First Section. The Relation between the World and God
  14. Creation
  15. The Angels
  16. The Devil
  17. Preservation
  18. First Part, Second Section. The Divine Attributes Related to the General Relationship between God and the World
  19. God Is Eternal
  20. God Is Omnipresent
  21. God Is Omnipotent
  22. God Is Omniscient
  23. Some Other Divine Attributes
  24. First Part, Third Section. The Constitution of the World
  25. The Original Perfection of the World
  26. The Original Perfection of Man
  27. Second Part. The Facts of the Religious Self-Consciousness as Determined by the Antithesis
  28. First Aspect of the Antithesis. The Consciousness of Sin
  29. First Aspect, First Section. Sin as a State of Man
  30. Original Sin
  31. Actual Sin
  32. First Aspect, Second Section. The Constitution of the World in Relation to Sin
  33. First Aspect, Third Section. The Divine Attributes Relating to the Consciousness of Sin
  34. God Is Holy
  35. God Is Just
  36. Second Aspect of the Antithesis. The Consciousness of Grace
  37. Second Aspect, First Section. The State of the Christian as Conscious of the Divine Grace (with the Person of Christ)
  38. The Work of Christ
  39. Fellowship with the Redeemer Expressed in the Individual Soul
  40. Regeneration
  41. Sanctification
  42. Second Aspect, Second Section. The Constitution of the World in Relation to Redemption
  43. The Origin of the Church
  44. Election
  45. The Communication of the Holy Spirit
  46. The Subsistence of the Church Alongside of the World
  47. The Essential and Invariable Features of the Church
  48. Holy Scripture
  49. The Ministry of the Word of God
  50. Baptism
  51. The Lord’s Supper
  52. The Power of the Keys
  53. Prayer in the Name of Christ
  54. The Mutable Element Characteristic of the Church
  55. The Plurality of the Visible Churches
  56. The Fallibility of the Visible Church
  57. The Consummation of the Church
  58. Appendix. On Eternal Damnation
  59. Second Aspect, Third Section. The Divine Attributes Which Relate to Redemption
  60. The Divine Love
  61. The Divine Wisdom
  62. Conclusion. The Divine Trinity

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