Friedrich Schleiermacher — On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers, translated with an introduction by John Oman (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1893), from CCEL.

Five speeches addressed to the educated Romantics of Berlin who had turned their backs on religion: religion is neither metaphysics nor morals but “a sense and taste for the Infinite”. The book from which Protestant liberal theology is usually dated. Oman translated the third edition (1821) with Schleiermacher’s later explanations, and gives the changes from the first edition in an appendix.

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Contents (7)

  1. First Speech. Defence
  2. Second Speech. The Nature of Religion
  3. Third Speech. The Cultivation of Religion
  4. Fourth Speech. Association in Religion, or Church and Priesthood
  5. Fifth Speech. The Religions
  6. Epilogue
  7. The First Edition