Schleiermacher: Christmas Dialogue, The Second Speech, and Other Selections (Classics of Western Spirituality)
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Overview
This volume includes new translations of two of Schleiermacher’s most read works, both of which are fascinating and edifying religious texts in their own right and both of which also capture key aspects of Schleiermacher’s spirituality: The Christmas Celebration: A Dialogue (1806), and the famous Second Speech, “On the Essence of Religion,” from Schleiermacher’s classic, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers (2nd edition, 1806). Readers interested in spirituality and/or interested in learning more about Schleiermacher will enjoy reading these texts in this accessible and quite readable volume. The volume also includes two sermons by Schleiermacher, one given on Pentecost Sunday (1825) and the other on the second Sunday of Advent (1832). The volume includes a helpful introduction that explores the meaning of “spirituality” as a theme in Schleiermacher’s life and works. The entire volume reflects the most recent scholarship in spirituality and in Schleiermacher studies.
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- Includes new translations of two of Schleiermacher’s most read works.
- Includes two sermons by Schleiermacher.
- Reflects the most recent scholarship in spirituality and in Schleiermacher studies.
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Schleiermacher’s Spirituality: An Introduction
- Schleiermacher’s Life and Works, with a Special View to His Spirituality
- Schleiermacher’s Writing as Spiritual Exercise
- Five Themes in Schleiermacher’s Spirituality
- Texts and Translations
- 2. The Christmas Celebration: A Dialogue (1806)
- 3. The Second Speech: “On the Essence of Religion” (1806)
- 4. Sermons
- Pentecost Sunday (May 1825), 1 Corinthians 2:10–12: The Spirit from God and the Human Spirit
- Second Sunday of Advent (December 1832), Hebrews 4:15: Christ Is Like Us in All Things but Sin
- 5. Correspondence
- To his Father. Barby, January 21, 1787
- To Henriette Herz. January 1, 1798
- To G. A. Reimer. Gnadenfrei, April 30, 1802
- To Eleanore Grunow. Stolp, December 10, 1802
- To Henriette Herz. Stolp, January 20, 1803
- To F. H. Jacobi. Berlin, March 30, 1818
- Bibliography
- Index
- Title: Schleiermacher: Christmas Dialogue, the Second Speech, and Other Selections
- Author: Julia A. Lamm
- Series: Classics of Western Spirituality
- Publisher: Paulist Press
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 296
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 1768-1834; Spirituality › Christianity
- ISBNs: 9780809106073, 0809148781, 9780809148783, 9781587683664, 0809106078, 1587683660
- Resource ID: LLS:SCHLRMCHRSLCTNS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-10-20T21:13:45Z