Preface.

...[of imme]diate meaning contradicts the spirit of the whole, is a symbol, whether conscious or unconscious.

More important, and decisive not merely for historical research but also for the dogmatic Dogmatic: the study of the established core beliefs or "dogmas" of a religious system perspective, is the principle that only what belongs to religion according to its philosophical concept should be recognized as an integral part of it in the historical or dogmatic presentation of the teachings of a given religion. The general recognition of this principle would bring about great changes in theology if one had simultaneously reached an agreement on the philosophical concept of religion. This latter point will soon occur, however, without the need for everyone to meet within a specific philosophical terminology (for which there is little hope). That religion consists in an ineffable feeling The author, W.M.L. de Wette, was a key figure in a movement that emphasized religion as a matter of "feeling" (Gefühl) rather than just intellectual belief, a view heavily influenced by his contemporary Friedrich Schleiermacher. is taught by feeling itself and by history; the latter shows that all peoples agree in this feeling, yet differ from one another in the articulation original: "Aussprechen" of it—indeed, that the history of dogma of individual...