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Which branch of Christianity did Schleiermacher attempt to reconcile with Enlightenment criticisms?
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Friedrich Schleiermacher was a German theologian who attempted to reconcile the Protestant branch of Christianity with Enlightenment criticisms. He believed that religion was not about intellectual assent to a set of beliefs, but about a feeling of absolute dependence on God. He also argued that the Bible was not a literal account of history, but a collection of texts that could be interpreted in different ways.
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