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Because his parents wanted Schiller to become a priest, they had the priest of the village instruct the boy in Latin and Greek. Father Moser was a good teacher, and later Schiller named the cleric in his first play Die Räuber ( The Robbers ) after him.
The priests, to whose order he belonged from just that moment when he was adopted into the royal family, now took over his education, and instructed him in all matters of Egyptian wisdom, which were the exclusive prerogative of their caste.
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Schiller presents Moses as an alter ego and an archetypal poet who creates fiction to correct superstitions and bring his disciples closer to the truth. While Reinhold justifies the inexplicable emergence of the Bible as divine
Jan 2, 2005 · In the Aesthetical Letters, Schiller openly attacked the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, an empiricist turned neo-Aristotelean, who had become in Schiller’s day the favorite of the oligarchical reactionaries, for whom his writings provided ideological support.
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A former servant, Melville, arrives to reveal that he secretly has become a priest and has brought a host blessed by the Pope to administer her final Communion. [Note: The excerpts below are from the Joseph Mellish translation of 1800 ; they do not do justice to Schiller’s elevated language, which manages to maintain an elevated tone without ...
1. A priestly theology of holiness. A key term for understanding the role of the priest in the Old Testament is "holiness". The refrain in Leviticus is "You shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy" (cf. Lev 11:44-45, 19:2, 20:26).
Jan 6, 2015 · Schiller grew up in a very religious family and spent much of his youth studying the Bible, which would later influenced his dramatic style of writing as a playwright. They also had five daughters. His father was away in the Seven Years’ War when Friedrich was born.
