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October 11, 2009

religion’s highest concern

To join the different moments of humanity to one another and, from its succession, to divine the spirit in which the whole is directed, that is religion’s highest concern. History, in the most proper sense, is the highest object of religion. It begins and ends with religion – for in religion’s eyes prophecy is also history, and the two are not to be distinguished from one another – and at times all true history has first had a religious purpose and proceeded from religious ideas. In its realm, therefore, lies also the highest and most sublime intuitions of religion.


Schleiermacher - On Religion

Posted by amin at October 11, 2009 9:00 AM