The bedrock and soil of religion and spirituality, he decided, is none of what the cultured despisers despised. A young and brilliant theologian, Friedrich Schleiermacher, tackled those questions and gave an answer that was influenced by the Romantic movement (Oldmeadow 2010). The cultured intelligentsia were rather despising of religion then-its myths and fables posing as fact and history, its dogmatisms posing as unquestionable reason, its miracles reflecting an ignorance of the basics of science, and its morality too constrictive. Those questions had gained new force in the 1800s-the heyday of the so‐called Age of Reason. If there is a vital truth to religion and spirituality, upon what bedrock does that truth stand, or out of what does it grow or emerge? And is it both cognitively true and existentially vital at all? Or are religion and spirituality entirely illusions, vestiges of minds from a prescientific age, better dispensed with?
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