The volume contains the papers presented to the Schleiermacher Congress held in Berlin from 26thto 29th March 2006. The theme of the congress was?“Christianity – State – Culture”, and it was organized by the International Schleiermacher Society in association with the Berlin Humboldt University Faculty of Theology and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The appendix contains the first edition of a reconstruction of the confirmation instruction given by Schleiermacher in 1831/32.