of faith, such as can be found in passages from *Luther. It remains, none the less, an open question whether Schleiermacher’s theology can support any notion of God’s action and presence as other than immanent. This might be borne out by his ambivalence towards *miracles and *providence. Moreover, it is debatable whether his refusal of speculative language about God’s own being, in and for himself, betrays any loss of confidence in the possibility of revelation from outside the processes of human
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