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work of Immanuel Kant, Herrmann taught "dialectical theology". He held that one can only speak of God dialectically, with two opposing statements - thesis and antithesis, "the dogmatic and the critical, the Yes and the No, the unveiling and the veiling, objectivity, and subjectivity." The goal was not to find a synthesis but to find in the tension "a space free in the middle and hopes that God himself will intervene since only God can say his Word." Herrmann also freely admitted his thinking was indebted to Friedrich Schleiermacher,

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