Kritische Gesamtausgabe

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) is one of the most influential theologians of recent centuries. This is the first critical edition of his lectures on dogmatics or the doctrine of faith, which are simultaneously a monument to the evolution of his theology.

This volume presents 46 reviews and four wide-ranging literature surveys from 1894 to 1900. These early writings already demonstrate the broad sweep of the theologian Troeltsch's critical horizon. Apart from reviewing new publications on dogma, contemporary ethical models and writings in the philosophy of religion, he also discussed studies on the history of religion, culture and ideas since the 17th century, together with texts on the philosophy of history. These writings, too, reflect his underlying methodological stance that the diagnosis of the present always aims to (re)form the present.