Christology, a density and particularity that is missing from Kant’s account. At the same time, we remain in a clearly modern framework. The focus of Schleiermacher’s theological attention is, as we’ve come to expect, on a general sensibility rather than on a specific revelation. Though Jesus was its trigger, the feeling of absolute dependency can and does exist apart from him; though we “learned” it through him, we can experience it without him. He is the cause of it in us, and he remains its greatest
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