Conditions determinative of his dogmatic development The intensity of his religious feeling. His emphasis upon the ethical significance of faith. His insight into the human soul. The apologetic subject-matter of his 1. The non-dogmatic, the declarative, the non-partisan, 2. Influence of pastoral and philanthropic work upon his 3. The material and structural elements in his preaching I. THE BUILDING OF THE PURITAN PASTORAL EVANGELIST A sketch of his life and of the processes of his development CHAPTER I FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST SCHLEIERMACHER I SCHLEIERMACHER'S SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT It seems almost presumptuous to undertake, within the limits permitted, to investigate so complex a personality as that of Schleiermacher, even from the restricted point of view of the preacher. But when we consider that he is the representative and the organ of those complex influences that have so powerfully affected the religious life of the modern world, and when we recall his vast significance for the modern evangelical church, the undertaking may be sanctioned, however inadequate its success. And because of the representative character of his preaching, of its influence upon the German pulpit, and of its own intrinsic excellencies, perhaps no better selection from among German preachers, for our study, could have been made. In the realm of religion he was the representative man of his century, a man of most capacious susceptibilities and of most comprehensive genius. Perhaps no man of his time was so responsive to those intellectual, æsthetic, religious, ethical, ecclesiastical, and political influences that were at work in B 3. His relation to the Anglican church 4. The influence of philosophical Idealism (2) Apprehension of the inner suggestiveness of Bib- (3) Use of Biblical material in advocacy of ethical (4) The textual and expository form and method 2. The intellectual and edifying quality of his preaching 4. The value of a refined and forceful personality in the 5. Rhetorical qualities in his preaching THE REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN PREACHER. 1. Beecher's individualistic quality; his freedom from con- ventionalism; the assertion of the rights of the 2. The didactic and persuasive quality (2) Thoroughness and grasp of what is fundamental (4) Intellectual catholicity. 3. Transcendent gifts of expression (1) The intellectual quality of clarity |