Well, I hope you're intrigued by this episode's title.

Oh, what a feeling.

The key to understanding this is the date, 1799.

Now, this will see if you are ready to get the A for the church history quiz.

What famous book was written in 1799? Well the answer to that question is

the book on religion speeches to its culture despisers. Now this was a book written by a German.

In fact, this is a very German name, Friedrich Schliermacher.

There's a lot of consonants and a lot of vows

in that name too, Schliermacher.

Schlermacher was born in 1768 and he dies in 1834.

Now he's a German, but he's actually not in the Lutheran church tradition. He's in the reform church

tradition but he left that tradition as a young man and he even for a while

engaged with the Moravians and came under Moravian influence but he found

that to be wanting to then he ended up as a student at Hala now the University of

Halla had been a home for Pietism in Germany, but by the time that Schlermacher got there, it had drifted

towards rationalism. While Schlermacher was at Paula, though, he decided that he wasn't quite ready to give up religion.

He wasn't quite ready to give up Christianity.

He wanted to rethink it.

He also was realizing that he was not alone. There were many of his contemporaries, and these

are the cultured despisers of the title. They had grown up in churches, whether

they were

churches or Lutheran churches. They heard the stories of the miracles. They heard the

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