Jonathan M. Ciraulo examines the complex relationship between Romanticism and the sacramental imagination. While Romanticism reacts against Enlightenment materialism by asserting natures mysterious depth, it often reduces sacraments to subjective experiences or sociological tools. Analyzing figures from Schleiermacher to Feuerbach, Ciraulo argues that a true sacramental worldview requires a transcendent God acting through material rites, rather than a mere sacrament of the self rooted in human sentiment.
Jonathan Martin Ciraulo (Fri,) studied this question.