Author:
HUANG Yi, Associate professor, School of Marxism, Fuyang Normal University.
Abstract:
Friedrich Schleiermacher places "worship" within the domain of Christian performative actions. Worship constitutes the core of Christian religious life. Through worship, Christians are liberated from lower sensory self-awareness and return to the community of the Holy Spirit. As a dialogic community, the worship assembly selectively adopts various forms of communication according to its purpose. In Protestant worship, these forms include hymnody, prayer, preaching, and liturgy.Given that Schleiermacher's dogmatic theology is based on an analysis of the consciousness of redemption—and redemption is mediated through church worship— his theology, unlike Barth's and Lindbeck's interpretations, is "necessarily, intrinsically, and authentically oriented towards worship, preaching, teaching, and pastoral care." Schleiermacher's analysis, differentiation, and selection of communicative forms of worship, along with his emphasis on unifying consciousness and traditions (e.g., Christ's words, creeds, sacraments) in Protestant worship, indicate that his theology is not a form of "expressive-experiential theory", but rather aligns more closely with a "cultural-linguistic model".
Keywords:
individual, invention, liberty, modern world, Christianity
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