Papal tiara tiara bearing three crowns. The papal tiara was never worn for liturgical celebrations, such as Mass. At such functions the Pope, like other bishops, wore a mitre. However, a tiara was worn during the solemn entrance and departure processions, and one or more could be placed on the altar during the elaborately ceremonial Pontifical High Mass. The tiara was thus worn in formal ceremonial processions, and on other occasions when the pope was carried on the "sedia gestatoria", a portable throne whose use was ended by Pope John Paul II immediately after his election in October 1978. His short-lived predecessor,
On Religion five major sections: the Defense ("Apologie"), the Nature of Religion ("Über das Wesen der Religion"), the Cultivation of Religion ("Über die Bildung zur Religion"), Association in Religion ("Über das Gesellige in der Religion, oder über Kirche und Priesterthum"), and the Religions ("Über die Religionen"). The Defense ("Apologie") characterizes the four following speeches by Schleiermacher laying out of his anthropology of religion. He states, "[T]here are two points of view from which everything taking place in man or proceeding from him may be regarded. Considered from the centre outwards, that is according to its inner quality, it is an expression of