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Excerpt from Miscellanies, Vol. 2 of 2: Chiefly Theological
To a certain extent his teaching was a reform of theology. It could not have been this if it had been an attack from without; it was this, because it was a growth from within. That growth sloughed off many harmful excrescences and restored Christian doctrine to something nearer its original simplicity. And yet through his whole life Schleiermacher rejected ele ments of truth so important as the personal preexist ence and objective atonement of Jesus Christ, while God and immortality were conceived in so pantheistic a fashion that many calm critics have regarded him as an enemy to the Christian faith. To the student of philosophy and theology his positions are curiously interesting; to understand him is to understand the theology of our time. But he cannot be understood without a knowledge of his life and early surround ings; to these I therefore address myself, with the hope that they may help us to interpret his doctrine.
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