Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher stands in the very first rank of Christian systematic theologians with Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, and Karl Barth and has been dubbed as the ''Father of Modern Theology''.The beginning of the era of liberal theology that dominated Protestant thought at least until the First World War is commonly dated to the publication of Schleiermacher''s On Religion:Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers in 1799.His influence extends far beyond theology.He ..
