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The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

David Strauss

If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of these evangelical anecdotes, still leans to the historical interpretation, whether natural or supernatural; that mind must be alike ignorant of the true character both of legend and of history, of the natural and the supernatural.

David Strauss

David Strauss

David Strauss

Born: January 27, 1808

Died: February 8, 1874 (aged 66)

Bio: David Friedrich Strauss was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who scandalized Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he denied.

Known for:

The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined (1860)
Das Leben Jesu (1835)
Old faith & the new (1873)
New life of Jesus

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