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Clive Marsh, Schleiermacher Handbuch. Edited by Martin Ohst, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 70, Issue 2, October 2019, Pages 907–909, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flz137
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Volumes of the critical edition of Schleiermacher continue to appear. Many of those scholars who have been working on the five different sections of the edition, of which nearly seventy volumes have now appeared, have contributed to this marvellous Handbook. Schleiermacher specialists such as Andreas Arndt, Peter Grove, Andreas Reich, Claus-Dieter Osthövener, and Wilhelm Gräb, together with the editor, Martin Ohst (but more than forty in all), have, in compressed form, distilled the results of their enquiries and detailed engagement with Schleiermacher to produce a quite stunning collection of succinct, authoritative essays on various aspects of Schleiermacher’s life and work. Whilst Schleiermacher interpreters who have devoted their research to particular aspects of his work might always be likely to find the material here too compressed, for most of us this collection provides helpful summaries, solid expositions, fresh insights, and useful assessments. Above all, it is the sheer range of writings being addressed here which is telling: the critical edition demands that the fullest possible picture of Schleiermacher is presented.