Life of Jesus, Critically Examined
Penned in the tumultuous year of 1835, during an era defined by dogmatic religious intolerance and institutionalized adherence to the edicts of the church, David Friedrich Strauss' The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined represents an astonishingly bold assault on the complacency of Christianity, one which compels readers to challenge their own conception of faith. A respected theologian with a philosophical yearning to comprehend the world around him, Strauss found himself torn at the tender age of twenty-three between his desire to live the pious life of a local pastor, and his increasing awareness to the writing of thinkers such as Schleiermacher and Hegel. His first foray into the realm of religious thought was "The Doctrine of the Restoration of All Things in Its Religious-Historical Significance," a doctoral dissertation written in 1831 which argued that "the restoration of all finite things to the creator, and the concomitant overcoming of the awareness of contradiction between finite and infinite spirit must be de-eschatologized."1 Following four years of intensive inner dialogue, the centuries-old conflict between the literal and mythical interpretation of Scripture which consumed Strauss was resolved with the publication of what is perhaps religion's most controversial tome, his seminal
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The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined. The resulting exposition of historical criticism systematically dismantled the prevailing perception of Jesus Christ, lifting the shroud of divinity which for eighteen centuries had concealed his identity and conflated a man of his age into the Rock of Ages.
The central premise of Strauss' The Life of Jesus series, which wasrevised through multiple editions as the author continued to refine his philosophical vision, holds that the preponderance of study devoted to the Holy Bible is steeped in either a supernatural or naturalistic interpretation of the textual evidence. He furthered this notion by suggesting that mankind's acceptance of the Gospel accounts of Jesus are necessarily informed by "palpable misconceptions of the true nature of a mythus in a work on the mythology of the New Testament"2 which have been universally accepted and engrained within cultural belief...
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