[Strauß, David Friedrich] Kohut, Adolph.

David Friedrich Strauß als Denker und Erzieher. Mit 7 Gravüren.

Leipzig, Kröner, 1908. 8°. 240 Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Verlags-Halbleinenband. Wunderschöner Jugendstil-Einband in aussergewoehnlich guter Erhaltung.

Religionsphilosoph und Ethiker, Politiker, Parlamentarier und Parlamentsredner, Strauß über Geschichte und Geschichtsschreiber, Strauß über Liebe, Frauen und Ehe, David Friedrich Strauß’ Humor, etc.

David Friedrich Strauss (January 27, 1808 in Ludwigsburg – February 8, 1874 in Ludwigsburg) was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the “historical Jesus”, whose divine nature he denied. His work was connected to the Tübingen School, which revolutionized study of the New Testament, early Christianity, and ancient religions. Strauss was a pioneer in the historical investigation of Jesus.
Strauss’s Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet (The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined) was a sensation. While not denying that Jesus existed, Strauss did argue that the miracles in the New Testament were mythical additions with little basis in actual fact. Carl August von Eschenmayer wrote a review in 1835 called “The Iscariotism of our days,” a review which Strauss characterised as ‘the offspring of the legitimate marriage between theological ignorance and religious intolerance, blessed by a sleep-walking philosophy.’ The Earl of Shaftesbury called the 1846 translation by Marian Evans “the most pestilential book ever vomited out of the jaws of hell.” When Strauss was elected to a chair of theology in the University of Zürich, the appointment provoked such a storm of controversy that the authorities decided to pension him before he began his duties.

What made Das Leben Jesu so controversial was Strauss’s characterization of the miraculous elements in the gospels as being mythical in character. After analyzing the Bible in terms of self-coherence and paying attention to numerous contradictions, he rejected the actuality of the stories as “happenings” and read them solely on a mythic level. According to Strauss, the early church developed these miracle stories in order to present Jesus as the Messiah of the Jewish prophecies. This perspective was in opposition to the prevailing views of the time: rationalism, which explained the miracles as misinterpretations of non-supernatural events, and the supernaturalist view that the biblical accounts were entirely accurate. Strauss’s third way, in which the miracles are explained as myths which express the early Christian community’s evolving conception of Jesus, heralded a new epoch in the textual and historical treatment of the rise of Christianity.
In 1840 and the following year Strauss published his On Christian Doctrine (Christliche Glaubenslehre) in two volumes. The main principle of this new work was that the history of Christian doctrines has basically been the history of their disintegration. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Religion – Rare
• Language: Deutsch
• Inventory Number: 21315AB

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