The Christ Myth
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The Christ Myth, first published in 1909, was a book by Arthur Drews on the Christ myth theory. Drews, along with Bruno Bauer and Albert Kalthoff, is one of the three German pioneers of the denial of
Berlin Zoological Garden Zoologischer Garten Berlin The Elephant Gate entrance
David Strauss
James George Frazer, author of the Golden Bough
A mithraeum found in the ruins of Ostia Antica, Italy
The quest for the historical Jesus consists of academic efforts to determine what words and actions, if any, may be attributed to Jesus, and to use the findings to provide portraits of the historical
The Christ Myth
…IV, "The Witness of the Gospels", Drews denounces the unscientific methodology principles of theological history which have been used in Schweitzer's The Quest for the Historical Jesus, the new theological vogue since David Strauss (1808–1874), and resulted in a long string of Lives of Jesus. Drews criticizes historical theology as…
Albert Schweitzer's book The Quest of the Historical Jesus introduced the term
The criterion of embarrassment developed during the second quest was applied to the Baptism of Jesus, depicted here in a c. 1567 painting by Juan Fernández Navarrete.
"Jesus Teaches the People by the Sea", a painting by James Tissot, c. 1890
The ancient synagogue at Capernaum