This book argues that early Church fathers relied on widespread illiteracy to downplayprophecies such as "Verily
This book argues that early Church fathers relied on widespread illiteracy to downplayprophecies such as "Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass" and revise Christianityto be less millenarian. The early chapters tend to summarize a figure such as Bruno Bauer and thenoffer criticism, but the final hundred pages of this book offer the author's own theory of"thoroughgoing eschatology," which was later expanded on in The Mystery of the Kingdom of God.Three chapters of this book are devoted to the theories of David Friedrich Strauss, whom this book'sauthor claims wrote the perfect work of literature. It devotes chapters to the "liberal lives" of thesubject as well as to potential (*) Buddhist influences, and its subtitle notes that it is a critical study ofprogress "from Reimarus to Wrede." It also notes that no real work on the subject could be done until an1894 grammar of Aramaic appeared. For 10 points, name this 1906 summary of research into a particularfirst-century figure, with which Albert Schweitzer revolutionized the academic study of Christianity.
This book argues that early Church fathers relied on widespread illiteracy to downplayprophecies such as "Verily
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