God and World in Schleiermacher's 'Dialektik' and 'Glaubenslehre'

This essay investigates the role played by Schleiermacher's philosophical lectures on 'Dialektik' in the methodology of his epoch-making dogmatics, the 'Glaubenslehre'. The God-world relationship, a central theme in both works, provides a focus for the author's contention that Schleiermacher employed his own epistemology as a standard of criticism for the dogmatic exposition of Christian doctrine.