Abstract
Schleiermacher found himself caught between oppressive orthodoxy and religion's despisers. As a corrective, he described piety as nondual awareness of God that issues in equanimity and love. This essay examines his understanding of immediate self-consciousness and contemplation as they provide him with a way of describing the interdependence between divine transcendence and the primacy of love. The analysis of mind together with what it revealed about religion provided Schleiermacher, and potentially provides our own generation, with one way of retaining a generosity of spirit amid ongoing culture wars.
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