Schleiermacher saw language as self-expression.
Not unnaturally, on that theory, interpretation of language retraces the path of language back to the source, to the author’s intention.
But Schleiermacher’s view of language is of a piece with his liberal experiential-expressivist theological framework.
Why then would any evangelical, rejecting Schleiermacher’s theology, follow his hermeneutical theory?
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