Friedrich Schleiermacher: References & Edit History

Schleiermacher’s works, Sämtliche Werke, have been published in 30 volumes in three parts: 1. Theologie, 2. Predigten (sermons), 3. Philosophie (1835–64). The best available study of his life and thought is Martin Redeker, Friedrich Schleiermacher: Leben und Werk (1968; Eng. trans. 1973), a thorough work based on meticulous research. A brief and charmingly personal biography is that of Mary F. Wilson, “Biographical Sketch,” in Selected Sermons of Schleiermacher, pp. 1–37 (1890). Hugh Ross Mackintosch, Types of Modern Theology, pp. 31–100 (1937), contains a critical study of Schleiermacher’s thought (“The Theology of Feeling”) from the point of view of a “kerygmatic” theology of the Word. Terence Tice, Schleiermacher Bibliography (1966), includes more than 1,900 items with introductions and annotations.