Schleiermacher and Steiner's contrasting anthropologies

Schleiermacher influenced theology from a rational, dogmatic, traditional system to one centered in experience, mainly his famous "feeling of absolute dependence" (on a presumed God, not the Void, which would come to be felt more widely later in the 19th).
with a different anthropology (which Schleiermacher would have rejected), Steiner held also to an experiential "theology" of (mystical) sorts, but one more of conditional independence.

Schleiermacher in Moscow

having a chocolate-coffee near Revolution Square in Moscow in a Seattle-based cafe this afternoon, reading C. W. Christian's Friedrich Schleiermacher, finally understood his theological thought and position...first encountered some near four decades past in a class at Duke.

no one will have noticed or course. few understood if they had. and how few can appreciate a scholar's smile?

saving God, or avoiding a void?

with 40 years of periodic readings in religion(s) and theology(ies)...
often it seems rather less true that theological writings are an explication, or even apologetics, than an attempt now some centuries old, to save God.
or worse...
avoid a void

lost in the words

even if God is there to be found...
most get lost in the words...
especially if seeking in the thick ancient and new-growth forests of theology, religious studies, philosophy...with their conflicting maps and criss-crossing paths

??

how many -- who -- people have come to wonder if the ? has an interesting origin, and social and cultural history?

Don Quixote in Giza...

encountering the Sphinx...

no angels above...

not being able to look to any caring God for consolation with even his very real periodic physical suffering and his meaning of seeking...Nietzsche -- after "Darwin" -- seems to have tried to look from the animal below (and in) man upwards not to any angelic or Platonic delusions, but to a kind of nonetheless noble surpassing of man: the Übermensch

which universe of discourse

it is within the university rather than the universe that most try to think about the world and life, especially since the last quarter of the 19th century.
(if in places like California it is rather New Age bookshops)

enthusiastic?

choose your god wisely

Mt. Sinai... Mt Tabor... Sils Maria...

Nietzsche...creating a replacement for the Christianity he had disbelieved and rejected...

not Mt. Sinai on the Peninsula, nor Mt Tabor, nor Mount of Olives...but Sils-Maria Switzerland

 "6,000 feet beyond man and time"

and a BBC documentary on Nietsche:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuxDMEDF6Vs