Andrew C. Dole, Shelli Poe, and Kevin Vander Schel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. xxxii + 688, £130.00 (hb). ISBN 9780198846093

It could be argued that a defining weakness of Anglican theology in the post-Enlightenment period is that it has lacked a paradigm-setting figure such as Friedrich Schleiermacher and, indeed, until rather late in the twentieth century few Anglican theologians engaged deeply or extensively with this "father of modern theology."Anglicanism has, of course, produced many notable scholars in particular areas of theology such as New Testament Studies, Church History, and Liturgics but what it has lacked has been a model for synthesizing the spectrum of theological studies as a whole.Many might say "A good thing too," looking askance at what might be perceived as a Germanic tendency to pursue systematic studies at the expense of life-but, as many of the essays in this volume illustrate, that is just what Schleiermacher emphatically did not do, since, despite the extraordinary scope of his theological activity, this was all developed from and was continuously related back to a starting-point in the actual lived religious life of individuals and communities.It is indicative of this neglect that the first English translations of his best-known works, On Religion and The Christian Faith, were produced by Scottish theologians who shared Schleiermacher's Reformed faith.Before going any further, it is worthwhile underlining just the extraordinary range of Schleiermacher's intellectual engagements.As I have mentioned, he is known to theologians as "the father of modern theology" but "theology" in the narrow sense is the focus of only about a third of the entries in this Handbook.Lutz Kppel's article, for example, reminds us that "Schleiermacher can be regarded as the intellectual and organizational founding father of modern German classical scholarship, as it was practiced from the nineteenth century onwards," adding that his translation of the Platonic corpus has remained the "landmark" for modern German translations down to the present (p.501).But that is only a beginning.He also played formative roles in pedagogy (Michael Winkler), hermeneutics (Christian Berner), and, as Johannes Zachhuber shows, played a pivotal role in determining the organization of the new University of Berlin that became a model for many of the