To the Death
― In the 1830s David Strauss, a German theologian on the margins of the Young Hegelian school of thought, published Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet – The Life of Jesus Critically Examined. It was a sensation, the beginning of a quest for the real historical Jesus, as opposed to the miracle-maker of the gospels. A lot of the reaction, as you may imagine, was hostile, some of it hysterically so. In England the seventh earl of Shaftesbury, the highest of Tory Anglicans, described the 1846 [...].
