RELG 456 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Immanence, Agnosticism, Friedrich Schleiermacher

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 456
• Professor: Jim Kanaris

Document Summary

German protestant thinking then evolved to the tendency of explaining away the origin (phase 2). When we readdress the truth of religion we achieve emancipation. Deists with the critical mentality regards revelation which later morphed into destabilization at. German philosopher, theologian, associated with enlightenment and weimar classicism. Rendered that relg is just a phenomenon among various phenomena (phase 2) Religion is also seen as something universal and natural - examined with a historical footing. He promoted the idea of religious evolutionism: the trend of staring from natural religion (primal) and evolving towards more sophisticated, and civilized religious forms (christianity) All knowledge is historically pre-conditioned, meaning that to study religion one has to tract the human history and have to study all religious traditions (start of plurality?) A grand narrative of formation of human religious behaviours based on history and cultures. He examined in a historical and generic method to understand the plurality as well as the meaning of such plurality.