Redeeming relationship, relationships that redeem: free sociability and the completion of humanity in the thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher
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Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2018. 200 p. (Religion in Philosophy and Theology; Vol. 99).
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Redeeming relationship, relationships that redeem
T2 - free sociability and the completion of humanity in the thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher
AU - Robinson, Matthew Ryan
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - A renewed focus on the role of interpersonal relationships in the cultivation of religious sensibilities is emerging in the study of religion. Matthew Ryan Robinson addresses this question in his study of Friedrich Schleiermacher's notion of "free sociability." In Schleiermacher's ethics, the human person is formed in and consists of intimate, tightly interconnecting relationships with others. Schleiermacher describes this sociability as a natural tendency prompted by experiences of physical and existential limitation that lead one to look to others to complete one's experience. But this experience of incompleteness and orientation to "the completion of humanity" also constitute the fundamental structure of religion in Schleiermacher's theory of religion as orientation to "the universe and the relationship of humanity to it." Thus, Schleiermacher not only presents sociability as basic to human nature, but also as inherently religious - and, potentially, redemptive. What making such a claim means and the implications it raises are central considerations of this study of Schleiermacher's ethics, theory of religion and ecclesiology. --
AB - A renewed focus on the role of interpersonal relationships in the cultivation of religious sensibilities is emerging in the study of religion. Matthew Ryan Robinson addresses this question in his study of Friedrich Schleiermacher's notion of "free sociability." In Schleiermacher's ethics, the human person is formed in and consists of intimate, tightly interconnecting relationships with others. Schleiermacher describes this sociability as a natural tendency prompted by experiences of physical and existential limitation that lead one to look to others to complete one's experience. But this experience of incompleteness and orientation to "the completion of humanity" also constitute the fundamental structure of religion in Schleiermacher's theory of religion as orientation to "the universe and the relationship of humanity to it." Thus, Schleiermacher not only presents sociability as basic to human nature, but also as inherently religious - and, potentially, redemptive. What making such a claim means and the implications it raises are central considerations of this study of Schleiermacher's ethics, theory of religion and ecclesiology. --
KW - Philosophical anthropology
KW - Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 1768-1834
KW - Theological anthropology
KW - Theology
U2 - 10.1628 / 978-3-16-155588-6
DO - 10.1628 / 978-3-16-155588-6
M3 - Monographs
SN - 978-3-16-155587-9
T3 - Religion in Philosophy and Theology
BT - Redeeming relationship, relationships that redeem
PB - Mohr Siebeck Verlag
CY - Tübingen
ER -