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🗓️ 9 November 2025
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Meet Friedrich Schleiermacher, the "Father of Modern Liberal Theology." Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller explain how Romanticism, culture, and personal doubt shaped Schleiermacher's theology and how he transformed faith and doctrine into feeling as he reimagined Christianity for the modern age.
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| 0:47.3 | You can't go looking for religious experience. As Martin Luther said, that would mean just every man goes to hell in his own way. |
| 0:57.0 | You don't climb the ladder of mysticism and experience to find God because if you do, the devil's at the top, |
| 1:05.0 | because he disguises himself as an angel of light. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, you want religious experience? Well, you'll experience it all right. |
| 1:11.8 | But it'll more likely be the devil than God. |
| 1:15.2 | And so the only safe path to God is through his son |
| 1:19.0 | who's come down to us and given us this word. |
| 1:49.8 | Thank you. Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church. This is Whitehorse's Inn, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology and culture. Who was Frederick Schleymacher? |
| 1:52.7 | Why do so many people call him the father? |
| 1:55.0 | Maybe not so many, but people would call him the father of modern liberal theology. |
| 1:59.8 | What shift did he make from creeds and |
| 2:01.9 | catechisms to religious experience in a romantic post-enlightment world? Does he really believe |
| 2:08.2 | that salvation is the Redeemers living communication of his sinless, absolute, potent God consciousness |
| 2:15.3 | to people, generating a new corporate life of blessedness. And if so, |
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