Schleiermacher on Christ and Religion - Paperbackby Richard R. Niebuhr (Author) This work represents the first study in English in over twenty years on the theological thinking of Friedrich Schleiermacher. It invites the reader to try on the thinking in motion of a pivotal figure in Protestant theology. The author believes that Schleiermacher has been misunderstood and misinterpreted first by Brunner and Barth, and consequently by other present day theologians. Because so few of the Barthian