On Schleiermacher's Romantic Temperament Of Religious Thought

From the eighteenth century to the thirties of the nineteenth century, the whole Europe was situated in an intense conversion, Germany beneath the French Revolution and the nation threaten of Napoleon's invasion .Many intellectuals and thinkers were encouraged by the national spirit, and their national consciousness was awakened, who value their selfhood, intuition and emotions, forming Romantics. Schleiermacher, who was at that special period in Germany and was deeply influenced by Romantics, accepted to the edification of the Romantics, begun to think and study on the reason and faith. He didn't only combine the humanism with Christian faith eventually to form his own feeling religious, but also opened humanist tradition of the religionSchleiermacher, who was not only against on the theological argument about the Enlightenment rationalism, but did not endorse Kant based religion on moral foundation. Schleiermacher attempted to explain the nature of religion and its root from a person's inner feelings. He believes that religion is rooted in people's inner feelings, rather than building on the rational philosophy or Moral discipline; that religion is the "sense and appreciation of the infinite" by Individuals who enjoy independent, which is when people look at the universe infinite absolute "intuition and emotion", and put this right absolute and the right combination of inner spy to become the basis of religion, that is a sense of dependence , just this "a sense of absolutely dependent " leads to result the true religion.Schleiermacher used the method of hermeneutics to study the Bible text when he studied the Christianity, forming a hermeneutics methodology. And he gradually formed a romantic hermeneutics through interpretation of the Bible, which made the hermeneutics become a general sense of interpretation from the classic. Schleiermacher was the person who first made that hermeneutics become Theoretical and systematic from a philosophical point of view, so that hermeneutics has a methodological significance. He believes that interpretation is the heart and soul of the exchange, which is only the reader able to achieve the reconstruction of the text to truly understand the author's purpose, to use Mind and syntax of the method to understand the text as far as possible to avoid misunderstandings.Schleiermacher created a unique model of religious belief and became the "father of modern theology", to comprehend people's mental world in the real life; He changed the direction of the development of Christianity, to make forceful arguments for the foundation of Christian faith as an inner transformation, and to lay the foundation for the eventual formation of the Protestant; he combined with humanism and Christian faith, which made a groundbreaking contribution to the complementarity's religious and the humanist tradition, so he became the promotion of modern humanistic spirit. Schleiermacher was created with a general "methodology" meaningful interpretation by combining the romantic spirit and hermeneutics that was a milestone in human culture, and he opened the humanistic tradition of hermeneutics, has made a great contribution in order to promote the human spirit.