This book is about the meanings of Christmas. It makes for a fine Christmas present–written in popular, poetic style–and is a literary classic. This little dialogue shared by women, men and children on Christmas Eve is the jewel in the crown of Schleiermacher's theological writings. It features celebrations among close friends in a traditionally decorated home–stories told by four women, doctrinal interpretations offered by four men. All these events are shared in dialogue, accompanied by singing, activities, and expressions of two young children, and exchange of homemade gifts. Beautifully written and full of evocative images, it is in effect a drama, lending itself to being read aloud. For the first time the two original German editions (1806 and 1826) can be handily compared, though without interrupting smooth reading of the final edition from start to finish. It will serve as a brief piece for reflection by students from high school through graduate school.
New discoveries arise alongside memories in every Christmas sermon that Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) ever delivered. This book invites readers into an informed experience of Christmas through eleven sermons. In these pages readers watch Schleiermacher lay discovery and memory side by side, because this is how his own famed systemic theological views of Christian faith and life developed throughout his life. These sermons evoke first curiosity then wonderment at the prospects reading can open. For Schleiermacher, Christmas was always a special time to engender such experiences–a time to survey different vistas of Jesus' birth and career. Schleiermacher lived when the modern age was being born. He contributed substantially to that birth and to the health of modern times. His sermons collected here display the main theological grounds for his worldview, which is still quite timely today.
Полный вариант заголовка: «Der christliche Glaube nach Grundsätzen der evangelischen Kirche im Zusammenhange dargestellt. Bd. 2 / von Friedrich Schleiermacher».
Полный вариант заголовка: «Der christliche Glaube nach Grundsätzen der evangelischen Kirche im Zusammenhange dargestellt. Bd. 1 / von Friedrich Schleiermacher».
Полный вариант заголовка: «Gelegentliche Gedanken über Universitäten in deutschem Sinn : Nebst einem Anhang über eine neu zu errichtende / Von F. Schleiermacher».