Theological Liberalism: The 1800s to the Present
While sin and temptation are Satan's tools against individual Christians, sinful theological liberalism has been his main weapon against the Church as a whole for several hundred years. Influenced by philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, who "declared his age 'an age of criticism' and called readers to reject the authority of the church and the Bible," Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834) is known as the "father of modern theology" and, more specifically, the "father of modern liberal theology." While it can be said that theological liberalism began with Schleiermacher, events before his life contributed to the infiltration of liberal theology into the church.