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.

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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.