The 18 essays cover religious epistemology, 19th-century theology, and Friedrich Schleiermacher. A response by Verheyden discusses Schleiermachers' hermeneutics of the historical Jesus. Specific topics include knowing God and living fully; theological thinking, the American experience, and the idea of the university; Schelling and Tillich on God's relation to the world; Kierkegaard's dialectical dance; the role of the imagination in the interpretation of religious experience according to the works of Schleiermacher and Ludwig Feuerbach; and Schleiermacher on sacred and profane hermeneutic. The text is double spaced. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
