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Romanticism and the “Sacramental Imagination”

Jonathan Martin Ciraulo

Abstract

Jonathan M. Ciraulo examines the complex relationship between Romanticism and the "sacramental imagination". While Romanticism reacts against Enlightenment materialism by asserting nature's mysterious depth, it often reduces sacraments to subjective experiences or sociological tools. Analyzing figures from Schleiermacher to Feuerbach, Ciraulo argues that a true sacramental worldview requires a transcendent God acting through material rites, rather than a mere "sacrament of the self" rooted in human sentiment.

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