Richard Crouter is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, Carleton College, Minnesota. His many publications include the highly acclaimed Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (1996).
Introduction; Part I. Taking the Measure of Schleiermacher: 1. Revisiting
Dilthey on Schleiermacher and biography; 2. Schleiermacher, Mendelssohn and
Enlightenment theology: comparing On Religion (1799) and Jerusalem (1783);
3. Hegel and Schleiermacher in Berlin: a many-sided debate; 4.
Kierkegaard's not so hidden debt to Schleiermacher; Part II. Signposts of a
Public Theologian: 5. Schleiermacher's Letters on the Occasion and the
crisis of Berlin Jewry; 6. A proposal for a new Berlin University; 7.
Schleiermacher and the theology of bourgeois society: a critique of the
critics; Part III. Textual Readings and Milestones: 8. Schleiermacher's
theory of language: the ubiquity of a romantic text; 9. Shaping an academic
discipline: the Brief Outline on the Study of Theology; 10. Rhetoric and
substance in the revision of The Christian Faith (1821-2); 11. On Religion
as a religious classic: hermeneutical musings after two hundred years.
