Philosopher and mathematician A N Whitehead once claimed that “the safest general characterization of European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” It is difficult to disagree with him. Plato wrote seminal works on ethics, political theory, morality, epistemology, and metaphysics. His concept of forms went on to have a great influence on Christian theology in the post-Apostolic period and many of the ideas that form the basis for Western democracy come from his Republic.

The Pastoral Epistles contain some of the most controversial passages in the New Testament. They are also the most personal New Testament letters. The Classic Commentaries and Studies on the Pastoral Epistles Upgrade presents commentaries written from multiple traditions, each examining the epistles from their unique perspective. Authorship of the letters draws a great deal of attention in each volume—from both traditional and non-traditional commentators. At varying levels, each commentary in this collection focuses on the text, and seeks to make it more understandable to readers.

Volume 2 of Christian Apologetics Past and Present takes a sweeping look at apologetics from the Reformation to the present. Readings from 26 apologists are included. With editorial commentary and questions for reflection, this is a valuable text for both students and people interested in defending their faith.

Christian Faith is one of the most important works of Christian theology ever written. The author, known as the “father of theological liberalism,” correlates the entirety of Christian doctrine to the human experience of and consciousness of God. A work of exhaustive scholarship written in deep sympathy with the ministry of congregations and church bodies, Christian Faith has inspired admiration and debate from all quarters of the Christian family since its first publication in 1821. This is the first full translation of Schleiermacher’s Christian Faith since 1928 and the first English-language critical edition ever. Edited by top Schleiermacher scholars, this edition includes extensive notes that detail changes Schleiermacher made to the text and explain references that may be unfamiliar to contemporary readers. Employing shorter sentences and more careful tracking of vocabulary, the editors have crafted a translation that is significantly easier to read and follow. Anyone who...

What is the foundation of liberal Protestantism? Wracked by doubt and challenged by questions raised by the Enlightenment, Friedrich Schleiermacher attempted to develop a system of theology that would free theology from shifts in philosophy. What he created was a theological system that replaced Scripture and the historical creeds with human experience and emotion. Schleiermacher, known as the Father of Liberal Theology, argued that the “essence of religion is the feeling of absolute dependence.” Jesus was unique, he said, because he was keenly aware of this utter dependence. It is the church’s job to live this utter dependence and communicate it with the world. The work of theology is to explore the experiences and feelings of living out this utter dependence. Theology, for Schleiermacher, should be descriptive, not prescriptive.

This collection contains twelve volumes dealing with various aspects of apologetics. It focuses on core, contemporary apologetic issues like atheism, postmodernism, evil, and science. In a solid, scriptural, and non-technical way, the Crossway Apologetics Collection brings beginning and experienced apologist insight on today’s philosophical issues, while firmly defending the Christian faith.

This massive twenty-five volume collection features some of the best commentaries and studies on the Gospel According to Luke from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With scholars and authors such as James Foote, Edwin W. Rice, Charles Erdman, Arthur Carr, and James Hamilton, Classic Commentaries and Studies on Luke (25 vols.) offers over 9,000 pages of interpretation, observations, translations, contextual history, and application on the "most literary" book of the New Testament. The twenty-five volumes contained in Classic Commentaries and Studies on Luke (25 vols.) have had an enduring impact on New Testament exegesis, and this exceptional collection provides easy accessibility to this wealth of significant scholarship.

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This work is a condensed version of Schleiermacher’s magnum opus The Christian Faith (Der christliche Glaube). Schleiermacher develops the central tenet of all his theology: religion is the feeling of absolute dependence on God. This feeling implies a direct relationship between the infinite and the finite. For Schleiermacher, the church is not a knowing thing or a doing thing; it is a feeling thing.

Schleiermacher wrote On Religion as a defense of the Christian faith against the challenges of Enlightenment philosophy. The book consists of five speeches in which Schleiermacher advances three ideas. He argues that humans are evolving and changing, that God’s work must be universal, and that piety is the emotional response of the finite’s dependence on the infinite.

Written as a Socratic-style dialogue, Christmas Eve recounts a number of conversations during a banquet held on Christmas Eve by a woman named Ernestine. Through discussions between the various characters, Schleiermacher communicates his views on theology and religion—particularly as they relate to the role of Christ. The people represented in the book are taken from the types of people Schleiermacher associated with—the educated, cultured section of society.

Written at the beginning of Schleiermacher’s professorship at the University of Berlin, Brief Outline of the Study of Theology seeks to lay out a structure for the study of theology, particularly in a university context. In it, Schleiermacher lays out what he sees as the nature of theology, the nature of the theological task, and the nature of the theologian. He then states the nature of philosophical theology, historical theology, and practical theology. Schleiermacher presents the structure of theology as a wheel. Each spoke is a different discipline that adds to the whole. The hub is the teaching and guidance of the church. The theologian must understand the important aspects of each spoke and how they relate to the hub.

The Classic Scholarship Collection includes more than twelve hundred works from the most trusted Christian authors and teachers of all time: Augustine, John Chrysostom, Aquinas, Charles Spurgeon, John Wesley, John Calvin, and more. With resources in original language tools, commentaries, catechisms, histories, systematic theologies, dictionaries and more, you'll have the tools for both in-depth and broad study of Scripture, systematic theology, historical theology, Biblical studies, and much more.

With thousands of scholarly commentaries covering every book of the Bible, the Complete Classic Commentaries Collection is a timeless trove of more than 1,600 expositions, analyses, and illustrations. This massive bundle is comprised of classic commentaries Logos has released separately in the past. Build your library or complement the resources you already own with these classic works in Logos’ advanced digital format.

The Lutheran Portfolio library makes your study of the Bible easier by connecting your entire library of books to a robust set of study tools. The Lutheran Portfolio Library takes everything in the Lutheran Diamond Library and adds even more to your library. The Lutheran Portfolio LIbrary contains key sets including Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary | AYBD (6 vols.), Stuttgart Scholarly Editions: Core Bundle, Anchor Yale Bible Commentary | AYBC (94 vols.), UBS Handbooks Series: Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical Books (66 vols.), and many more. The Lutheran Portfolio Library is excellent for academic research or advanced exegesis.

These biblical sermons, from a variety of traditions and homiletic approaches, open up Scripture so you can see how centuries of preachers before you have handled the verse you’re studying or preparing to preach from. Featuring over one hundred preachers, this collection is the best library builder for sermons ever released. If you are searching for insights from the great preachers of history, either for personal growth or for inspiration in your own preaching, the Sermon Finder Collection is ideal for diving deep into thousands of expository and topical sermons.

Gain insight into the father of liberal theology’s thought by studying the words he shared from the pulpit. This volume contains 26 of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s sermons on a range of topics—marriage, service, death, the resurrection, and more.

Schleiermacher's preaching constituted a substantive part of his academic and pastoral life, and provides a foray into his thought that is both accessible and inspiring. In the form of the sermon, we discover Schleiermacher's theology at work in the context of the worship life of the community--especially important for this progenitor of liberal theology. Schleiermacher's Passion sermons are especially interesting, given that contemporary interpreters of his thought generally assume that his interest in the cross is attenuated, at best. Yet, in these sermons we discover him thinking through his theology of community, atonement, history, creation, and Scripture in the face of the death of the Redeemer. The sermon, in sum, is the principal means by which the God-consciousness of the Redeemer is communicated to the community to the end that we come to believe in the One who died for the sake of the world. Jesus' Life in Dying contains nine sermons preached on the topic of the cross and…

One of the first works of synoptic textual criticism, A Critical Essay on the Gospel of St. Luke explores the textual origins of Luke as it relates to the other synoptic Gospels. Schleiermacher, drawing somewhat on previous work, espouses the theory that the Gospel writers were not using each other as sources; rather, that there were independent sources, some of which they shared, some of which they didn’t.

„Über die Religion: Reden an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verächtern“ von Friedrich Schleiermacher ist ein grundlegendes Werk der modernen Theologie und Religionsphilosophie. Veröffentlicht im Jahr 1799, wendet sich Schleiermacher in fünf Reden an die gebildeten Kreise seiner Zeit, die der Religion skeptisch oder ablehnend gegenüberstanden. Er versucht, ihnen die Bedeutung und Tiefe des religiösen Gefühls nahezubringen und die Missverständnisse über Religion auszuräumen.

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.