Schleiermacher and the Essence of Religion

To rescue Christianity from the reproofs of the intellectuals, some Christian scholars, especially Schleiermacher, have posed the idea of religious experience as the essence of religion in the recent decades. Schleiermacher believes the essence of religion and piety is a kind of religious experience and it is not the rational and ethical knowledge. After explaining this discussion and mentioning the preliminary points and the background of appearance of religious empiricism, the author, in this article, has investigated and criticized the idea of empiricists regarding the essence of religion.