On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
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On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers is a foundational 1799 work of modern Protestant theology in which Friedrich Schleiermacher defends the essence of religious experience to skeptical, educated audiences of his time.
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| On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers canonical | 4 |
| Über die Religion: Reden an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verächtern | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers Context triple: [Friedrich Schleiermacher, notableWork, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers]
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A.
Three Essays on Religion
Three Essays on Religion is a posthumously published collection of philosophical essays by John Stuart Mill that critically examines religious belief, theism, and the role of religion in moral life.
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B.
Commentary on True and False Religion
"Commentary on True and False Religion" is a 1525 theological treatise by Swiss Reformer Huldrych Zwingli that systematically contrasts what he saw as genuine Christian faith with the errors and abuses of the late medieval Catholic Church.
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C.
Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason
Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason is Immanuel Kant’s major philosophical work on the rational foundations of religion and the relationship between morality and religious belief.
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that systematically interpret the historical religions through the lens of his idealist philosophical system.
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E.
The Natural History of Religion
The Natural History of Religion is a philosophical work by David Hume that examines the origins and development of religious belief in human societies through a skeptical and empirical lens.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers Target entity description: On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers is a foundational 1799 work of modern Protestant theology in which Friedrich Schleiermacher defends the essence of religious experience to skeptical, educated audiences of his time.
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A.
Three Essays on Religion
Three Essays on Religion is a posthumously published collection of philosophical essays by John Stuart Mill that critically examines religious belief, theism, and the role of religion in moral life.
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B.
Commentary on True and False Religion
"Commentary on True and False Religion" is a 1525 theological treatise by Swiss Reformer Huldrych Zwingli that systematically contrasts what he saw as genuine Christian faith with the errors and abuses of the late medieval Catholic Church.
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C.
Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason
Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason is Immanuel Kant’s major philosophical work on the rational foundations of religion and the relationship between morality and religious belief.
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D.
Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that systematically interpret the historical religions through the lens of his idealist philosophical system.
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E.
The Natural History of Religion
The Natural History of Religion is a philosophical work by David Hume that examines the origins and development of religious belief in human societies through a skeptical and empirical lens.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| instanceOf |
Christian theology book
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book ⓘ theological work ⓘ |
| aim |
to defend the value of religious consciousness
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to reinterpret religion for modern cultured people ⓘ |
| audience |
cultured despisers of religion
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educated skeptics ⓘ |
| author | Friedrich Schleiermacher ⓘ |
| century | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| field |
philosophy of religion
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systematic theology ⓘ |
| firstPublicationPlace | Berlin ⓘ |
| genre |
religious philosophy
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theology ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers self-link ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTranslation | On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers self-link ⓘ |
| hasForm | series of speeches ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Age of Enlightenment
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early Romantic era ⓘ |
| influenced |
liberal Protestant theology
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modern theology of religious experience ⓘ philosophy of religion in the 19th century ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
essence of religion distinct from metaphysics and morality
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immediacy of religious intuition ⓘ religion as feeling of absolute dependence ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| mainTheme | defense of religion to skeptical educated audiences ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of Enlightenment rationalism about religion
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emphasis on subjective religious experience ⓘ foundational status in modern Protestant theology ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
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surface form:
Über die Religion: Reden an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verächtern
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| philosophicalContext |
Jena Romanticism
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surface form:
German Romanticism
post-Kantian philosophy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1799 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkOfAuthor | The Christian Faith ⓘ |
| religiousPerspective | Reformed Protestant ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Protestantism ⓘ |
| structure | five speeches ⓘ |
| subject |
apologetics
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philosophy of religion ⓘ religion ⓘ religious experience ⓘ theology of feeling ⓘ |
| theologicalMovement | modern Protestant theology ⓘ |
| timePeriodAddressed | late 18th-century European intellectual culture ⓘ |
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