Schleiermacher Extra Resources

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. The Life of Jesus, translated by S. Maclean Gilmour, edited by Jack C. Verheyden. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975 or Sigler Press, 1997.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Brief Outline on the Study of Theology, translated by Terrence N. Tice. Atlanta: John Knox, 1966.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. The Christian Faith, tr. and ed. H.R. Mackintosh and J.S. Stewart. With a Forward by Brian A. Gerrish. Tr. of the 2^nd German ed. of Der Christliche Glaube, 1930-31; 1^st German ed., 1821-22. First published 1928. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1999.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Christmas Eve: A Dialogue on the Celebration of Christmas. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1890.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. A Debate on Jewish Emancipation and Christian Theology in Old Berlin. [Texts by David Friedländer, Wilhelm Abraham Teller, and Friedrich Schleiermacher.] Edited and translated by Richard Crouter and Julie Klassen. Hackett Publishing Company, 2004.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Dialectic or, The Art of Doing Philosophy: A Study Edition of the 1811 Notes. Translated by Terrence N. Tice. Atlanta; Scholars Press, 1996.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Fifteen Sermons of Friedrich Schleiermacher Delivered to Celebrate the Beginning of a New Year. Translated by Edwina G. Lawler from Monologe (1800). Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Writings. Translated by Andrew Bowie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Hermeneutics: The Handwritten Manuscripts. Translated by James Duke and Jack Forstman. Edited by Heinz Kimmerle. Atlanta; Scholars Press, 1977.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Introduction to Christian Ethics. Translated by John C. Shelley. Nashville; Abingdon Press, 1989.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Lectures on Philosophical Ethics. Translated by Louise Adey Huish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. On Creeds, Confessions and Church Union: "That They May Be One." Translated by Iain G. Nicol. Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers. The second edition of Richard Crouter’s translation of the 1799 first edition of Über die Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) is almost identical to Crouter’s first edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), but it has a shorter introduction to fit in with the series to which it belongs. The older translation of the 1821 third edition of Über die Religion is by John Oman (first published 1893; most recently republished Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994).

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. On the Glaubenslehre: Two Letters to Dr. Lucke. Translated by James Duke and Francis Fiorenza. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1981.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Selected Sermons of Schleiermacher. Translated by Mary F. Wilson. Foreign Biblical Library. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890. Reprinted by Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2004.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Servant of the Word: Selected Sermons of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Translated and edited by Dawn DeVries. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Schleiermacher’s Soliloquies. Translated by Horace Leland Friess. Open Court, 1926.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. The Life of Schleiermacher, as Unfolded in His Autobiography and Letters, 2 volumes. Translation of the first two volumes of Aus Schleiermacher Leben in Briefen by Frederica Rowan. London: Smith, Elder, 1860.

Books and Dissertations about Schleiermacher

Barth, Karl. The Theology of Schleiermacher: Lectures at Gottingen, Winter Semester of 1923-24. Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1982.

Blackwell, Albert L. Schleiermacher's Early Philosophy of Life: Determinism, Freedom, and Phantasy. Harvard Theological Studies, Vol. 33. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982.

Brandt, James M. All Things New: Reform of Church and Society in Schleiermacher's Christian Ethics. Columbia Series in Reformed Theology. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.

Brandt, Richard B. The Philosophy of Schleiermacher; the Development of His Theory of Scientific and Religious Knowledge. New York: Harper, 1941.

Capetz, Paul E. Christian Faith as Religion: A Study in the Theologies of Calvin and Schleiermacher. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998.

Clements, Keith W. Friedrich Schleiermacher: Pioneer of Modern Theology. The Making of Modern Theology series. New York: Collins, 1987.

Crouter, Richard. Friedrich Schleiermacher: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism. Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Curran, Thomas H. Doctrine and Speculation in Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1994.

Dawson, Jerry F. Friedrich Schleiermacher: The Evolution of a Nationalist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.

DeVries, Dawn. Jesus Christ in the Preaching of Calvin and Schleiermacher. Columbia Series in Reformed Theology. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.

Dierkes, Hans, Terrence N. Tice, and Wolfgang Virmond. Schleiermacher, Romanticism, and the Critical Arts: A Festschrift in Honor of Hermann Patsch. A Publication of New Athenaeum / Neues Athenaeum. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

Duke, James O., and Robert F. Streetman, eds. Barth and Schleiermacher: Beyond the Impasse? Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988.

Fox, Charles Wayne. "The Logic of Schleiermacher's Interpretation of Religion." Harvard University, 1978.

Funk, Robert Walter, ed. Schleiermacher as Contemporary. Journal for Theology and the Church, Vol. 7. New York: Herder and Herder, 1970.

Gerrish, Brian A. A Prince of the Church: Schleiermacher and the Beginnings of Modern Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1984.

Gockel, Matthias. Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election: A Systematic-Theological Comparison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Guenther-Gleason, Patricia Ellen. On Schleiermacher and Gender Politics. Harvard Theological Studies. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1997.

Helmer, Christine, ed. Schleiermacher and Whitehead: Open Systems in Dialogue. Theologische Bibliothek Tupelmann. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004.

Hinze, Bradford E. Narrating History, Developing Doctrine: Friedrich Schleiermacher and Johann Sebastian Drey. Academy Series. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.

Jasper, David. The Interpretation of Belief: Coleridge, Schleiermacher and Romanticism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.

Johnson, William A. On Religion: A Study of Theological Method in Schleiermacher and Nygren. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964.

Kelsey, Catherine L. Thinking About Christ with Schleiermacher. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.

Kelsey, Catherine L. Schleiermacher's Preaching, Dogmatics, and Biblical Criticism: The Interpretation of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of John. Princeton Theological Monograph Series, Vol. 68. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2007.

Lamm, Julia. The Living God: Schleiermacher's Theological Appropriation of Spinoza. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

Lawler, Edwina G., Jeffrey Kinlaw, and Ruth Richardson, eds. The State of Schleiermacher Scholarship Today: Selected Essays. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

Luft, Eric von der. Hegel, Heinrichs, and Schleiermacher on Feeling and Reason in Religion: The Texts of Their 1821-22 Debate. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1987.

Mackintosh, Hugh R. Types of Modern Theology: Schleiermacher to Barth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.

Mariña, Jacqueline, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Mariña, Jacqueline. Transformation of the Self in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

McNeill, John Thomas. Makers of Christianity from Alfred the Great to Schleiermacher. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1935.

Munro, Robert. Schleiermacher, Personal and Speculative. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1903.

Nicol, Iain G., ed. Schleiermacher and Feminism: Sources, Evaluations, and Responses. Schleiermacher Studies and Translations, Vol. 12. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.

Niebuhr, Richard R. Schleiermacher on Christ and Religion: A New Introduction. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1964.

Oh, Sung Hyun. Karl Barth and Friedrich Schleiermacher 1909-1930. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2005.

Osborn, Andrew Rule. Schleiermacher and Religious Education. London: Oxford University Press; H. Milford, 1934.

Palmer, Richard E. Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1969.

Park, John Sungmin. Theological Ethics of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Schleiermacher Studies and Translations, Vol. 20. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.

Perkins, Ronald Wayne. "The Christologies of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Paul Tillich." Boston University, 1968.

Redeker, Martin. Schleiermacher: Life and Thought, translated by John Wallhausser from the 1968 German edition. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1973.

Richardson, Herbert. Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Founding of the University of Berlin: The Study of Religion as a Scientific Discipline. Schleiermacher Studies and Translations. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.

Richardson, Ruth. The Role of Women in the Life and Thought of the Early Schleiermacher, 1768-1806: An Historical Overview. Schleiermacher Studies and Translations. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.

Richardson, Ruth, ed. Schleiermacher in Context: Papers from the 1988 International Symposium on Schleiermacher at Herrnhut, the German Democratic Republic. Schleiermacher Studies and Translations. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.

Richardson, Ruth, ed. Schleiermacher's "to Cecilie" and Other Writings by and About Schleiermacher. A Publication of New Athenaeum/Neues Athenaeum. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.

Selbie, W. B. Schleiermacher a Critical and Historical Study. The Great Christian Theologies. London: Chapman and Hall, 1913.

Sherman, Robert J. The Shift to Modernity: Christ and the Doctrine of Creation in the Theologies of Schleiermacher and Barth. New York: T. & T. Clark International, 2005.

Sorrentino, Sergio, ed. Schleiermacher's Philosophy and the Philosophical Tradition. Schleiermacher Studies and Translations, Vol. 11. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.

Spiegler, Gerhard E. The Eternal Covenant: Schleiermacher's Experiment in Cultural Theology. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

Sykes, Stephen. Friedrich Schleiermacher. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1971.

Thandeka. The Embodied Self: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Solution to Kant's Problem of the Empirical Self. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Tice, Terrence N. Schleiermacher. Pillars of Theology. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006.

Tice, Terrence. Schleiermacher Bibliography. Princeton Pamphlets. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. This work contains 1,928 entries of primary sources and secondary literature dating up to 1966.

Vance, Robert Lee. Sin and Self-Consciousness in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher. National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1994.

Wilburn, Ralph Glenn. Schleiermacher's Conception of Grace. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1948.

Williams, Robert R. Schleiermacher the Theologian: The Construction of the Doctrine of God. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978.

Wyman, Walter E., Jr. The Concept of Glaubenslehre: Ernst Troeltsch and the Theological Heritage of Schleiermacher. Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1983.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters about Schleiermacher

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Links to Other English-Language Schleiermacher Sites

Societies

Schleiermacher Gesellschaft, hosted at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, including a (mostly German language) Forum

Encyclopedia Articles

Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Theology entry on Schleiermacher

Encyclopedia Britannica Online entry on Schleiermacher

Islands of Freedom entry on Schleiermacher

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Schleiermacher

Wikipedia entry on Schleiermacher

Online Texts

Cross, George, The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of his Chief Work "The Christian Faith". Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1911. Available online here (as well as on this site).

Monro, Robert. Schleiermacher, Personal and Speculative. Paisley A. Gardner, 1903. Available online here.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Brief Outline on the Study of Theology, to which are Prefixed "Reminiscences of Schleiermacher" by Dr. Friedrich Lücke. Translated from the German by William Farber. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1850. Available online here and here.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. The Christian Faith in Outline. Being paragraph headings from the two editions presented on opposite pages and translated by D. M. Baillie. Edinburgh: W. F. Henderson, 1922. Available online here.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Christmas Eve: A Dialogue on the Celebration of Christmas. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1890. Available online here.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. A Critical Essay on the Gospel of St. Luke. London: Taylor, 1825. Available online here.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Introduction to the Dialogues of Plato. Translated by William Dobson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1836. Available online here.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. On Religion; Speeches to its Cultured Despisers. Translated by John Oman. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1893. Available online here.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Selected Sermons. Translated by Mary F. Wilson. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1890. Available online here.

Schleiermacher, Friedrich D.E. Soliloquies: An English Translation of the Monologen. Translated by Horace Leland Friess. Chicago: Open Court, 1926. Available online here.

Selbie, William Boothby. Schleiermacher: A Critical and Historical Study. London: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1913. Available online here.

Schleiermacher Extra Resources

Contents

Reviews of Schleiermacher Biographies in English Translation

Reviews of Schleiermacher's Works in English Translation

Reviews of English-Language Works about Schleiermacher

Brief Schleiermacher English-Language Bibliography