The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined

The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined
Author: David Friedrich Strauss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1860
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

David Friedrich Strauss's Das Leben Jesu kritisch bearbeitet (1835) brought about a new dawn in Biblical criticism by applying the 'myth theory' to the life of Jesus. Strauss treated the Gospel narrative like any other historical work, and denied all supernatural elements in the Gospels. Das Leben Jesu created an overnight sensation and Strauss became embroiled in fierce controversy. This earliest English version of 1846 was translated by the novelist George Eliot, and was her first published book.

The Old Faith and the New

The Old Faith and the New
Author: David Friedrich Strauss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1873
Genre: Christianity
ISBN:

German philosopher and radical theologian David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874) distinguished himself as one of Europe's most controversial biblical critics and as an intellectual martyr for freethought.

David Friedrich Strauß, Father of Unbelief

David Friedrich Strauß, Father of Unbelief
Author: Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0198859856

David Friedrich Strauss is a central figure in 19th century philosophy. As the father of unbelief, he was a prominent critic of Christianity and persecuted for his views by religious and political authorities. This book studies his intellectual development and recounts his fate, which began in faith as a young man but finally ended in unbelief.

David Strauss: The Confessor and the Writer

David Strauss: The Confessor and the Writer
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2021-04-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

"David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer" attacks David Strauss's "The Old and the New Faith: A Confession," which Nietzsche holds up as an example of the German thought of the time. He paints Strauss's "New Faith"— a scientifically-determined universal mechanism based on the progression of history—as a vulgar reading of history in the service of a degenerate culture. Nietzsche polemically attacks not only the book but also Strauss as a Philistine of pseudo-culture.

The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History

The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History
Author: David Friedrich Strauss
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1977
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Some great books have the capacity to focus on the questions of the day so that everyone must deal with them; others rise to greatness only when they are discovered years later. Strauss's The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History may belong to both groups. When it was first published, it articulated sharply the crucial issues in the then current theological debate. Theologians today are discovering, not least of all from this century-old "book review" here translated for the first time, that they are not yet finished with David Friedrich Strauss. The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History brings to a head issues which had dominated Strauss's theological work. When read in the light of the author's career, amply surveyed in the Editor's Introduction, it also illumines major issues of modern Christian theology: the character of the Gospels, the historical accuracy of what they report, the possibility of getting at "Jesus as he really was," and the relevance of such a Jesus for modern man. -Publisher

The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined

The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined
Author: David Friedrich Strauss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-09-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781108019576

The German theologian David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874) first published his highly controversial The Life of Jesus in three volumes between 1835 and 1836. This translation, by George Eliot, is based on the fourth German edition (1840). In this work Strauss applied strict historical methods to the New Testament gospel narratives and caused scandal across the Protestant world by concluding that all miraculous elements in the life of Jesus were mythical and ahistorical. In volume 2 Strauss applies modern historical criticism to 'de-mythologize' the idea of Jesus as Messiah; the narratives about the disciples; the discourses in the Synoptic gospels and the Fourth Gospel; the non-miraculous events; and the miracles' narratives. This is a key text of nineteenth-century theology that pioneered the application of historical and scientific methods to the study of religions and religious texts. It is essential reading for any student of the New Testament.

Displacing Christian Origins

Displacing Christian Origins
Author: Ward Blanton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2007-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0226056899

Blanton Ward traces the current critical engagement of Agamben, Derrida and Zizek, among others, back to the 19th and early 20th century philosophers of early Christianity.