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 | | Schleiermacher was also influenced Kant, the Enlightenment philosopher who challenged the world to "dare to know." According to Kant, even if God were to intervene in the world, even if there were some extraordinary miracle as a result of prayer, the mind still could not know it was God. |
 | | Here Schleiermacher equates the term "Word" of God for the "activity of God expressed in the form of consciousness." By this he does not mean that God is active in the person, affecting the person, changing them, or affecting their consciousness. |
 | | Schleiermacher belonged to an elite for whom such matters as the blood of Jesus, miracles, visions, and interventions by the Spirit were considered primitive and superstitious. |
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