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Strauss’S Life Of Jesus, Theodore Parker, Paul Royster (Depositor)
Strauss’S Life Of Jesus, Theodore Parker, Paul Royster (Depositor)
Paul Royster
David Strauss’s Das Leben Jesu (1835) was one of the most influential and controversial theological works of the nineteenth century. It was first translated into English by Mary Ann Evans (“George Eliot”) in 1860, and is said to have been an important early influence on Friedrich Nietzsche. Strauss (1808-1874) applied the methods of German “higher criticism” or textual criticism to the Gospels, and argued that their accounts of Jesus’ miracles and prophecies were to be understood “mythically”—as products of the early church's use of Jewish messianic ideas and expectations to underscore the conviction that Jesus was the Messiah. Parker’s long …
Eliminationist Discourse In A Conflicted Society: Lessons For America From Africa?, Phyllis E. Bernard
Eliminationist Discourse In A Conflicted Society: Lessons For America From Africa?, Phyllis E. Bernard
Phyllis E. Bernard
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