The authority of Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and Aquinas, filtered through Bernard, Hadewijch, Luther, a broad array of Continental Pietists, and Scottish realists still exercised a profound influence on Christian writers in the post-Enlightenment West. This came through, for example, in the writings of the German pastor Friedrich Schleiermacher (d. ), who identified a unique emotion, “the feeling of absolute dependence,” that he presented as universally associated with religious experiences. That proposal remained central to much subsequent theorizing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, finding expression most famously in German theologi