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David Friedrich Strauss (German: Strauß [ˈdaːvɪt ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ʃtʁaʊs]; 27 January 1808 – 8 February 1874) was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he explored via myth (Strauss conceived of myths as expressions of Truths ...
Apr 10, 2024 · David Friedrich Strauss (born Jan. 27, 1808, Ludwigsburg, Württemberg [Germany]—died Feb. 8, 1874, Ludwigsburg) was a controversial German-Protestant philosopher, theologian, and biographer whose use of dialectical philosophy, emphasizing social evolution through the inner struggle of opposing forces, broke new ground in biblical ...
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David Friedrich Strauss (January 27, 1808 – February 8, 1874), was a German theologian, writer, German-Protestant philosopher, and biographer whose use of dialectical philosophy, emphasizing social evolution through the inner struggle of opposing forces, broke new ground in biblical interpretation.
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Jun 11, 2018 · STRAUSS, DAVID FRIEDRICH (1808 – 1874), German biblical critic, man of letters, and freethinker. Strauss is best known for his monumental book The Life of Jesus (1835). In some fifteen hundred pages, half of which are devoted to an analysis of the miracle and the death-resurrection stories in the New Testament , he argued that neither a ...
David Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and he was a Marshall Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford.
In David Friedrich Strauss (1835–36; The Life of Jesus Critically Examined), in which he denied the historical value of the Gospels and rejected their supernatural claims, describing them as “historical myth,” or the unintentionally created, legendary embodiment by 2nd-century writers of the primitive Christian community’s popular hopes.
May 1991. David Friedrich Strauss: Miracle and Myth. Marcus Borg. The Fourth R Volume 4-3 May–June 1991. Of all the books on the historical Jesus published in the nineteenth century, David Friedrich Strauss's The Life of Jesus (1835) has had the most enduring significance.
