Reading On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers | Alexandria
Read On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers by Friedrich Schleiermacher. Reframing religion as universal human experience, Schleiermacher's radical thesis jolts modern skeptics: faith isn't about dogma or doctrine, but our innate feeling of absolute dependence. By locating spirituality in emotion rather than reason, he challenged Enlightenment certainties and sparked existential questions that still resonate in our secular age.