SCHLEIERMACHER: CONCEPTS THÉOLOGIQUES LIBÉRAUX

F.D.E. Schleiermacher’s inauguration of hermeneutics as a philosophical discipline took place in the broad cultural frameworks offered by German Romanticism. The re-evaluation of theological and philosophical concepts benefited, in the case of Schleiermacher’s works, from the context of the renewals imposed by the liberal vision proposed by the axiological perspective of romanticism as a relevant event for the nineteenth century and its extensions in the twentieth century. The present text aims to capture some landmarks of the symbiosis between Schleiermacher’s preoccupations in the inauguration of philosophical and thematic hermeneutics such as the interdependence between the finite human and the infinite divine consciousness, the dialectical progress of religious consciousness, the finiteness of gnoseological approaches to the divine meta-presence, the need of another interpretation of Christian soteriology, the re-evaluation of the relationship between dogma and the individual experience of faith. The interval of this symbiosis may measure the value of Schleiermacher’s work and the level of cultural topicality of his subjects.