The German philosopher, author and evangelical theologian was “analytically edited The Life of Jesus Christ” because of his work (1835) released by the Church authorities. The magazine became one of the most well loved and controversial books of the 19th Century. He pointed to the historicity of the Gospels as a mythical interpretation of early Christian thoughts. Strauss 1840/41 published by the magazine “The Christian doctrine in its historical development and the struggle with modern knowledge represented” his second major work. David Friedrich Strauss was the founder of the historical-critical research on the life of Jesus …
David Friedrich Strauss was on 27 Born January 1808 in Ludwigsburg.
With leaving school, David Friedrich Strauss studied philosophy and theology in Tubingen. 1831/32 he continued his studies in Berlin. There he heard lectures including the philosopher and theologian Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher on the life of Jesus. Then he was in the time from 1832 to 1835 tutor in Tubingen. 1835 appeared to Strauss’ essay “The life of Jesus Christ analytically considered” in Tübingen, where he represented a religious conviction influenced by the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s attitude. The writing made him well-known and controversial one. The plant is open as a bunch of radical expressive of speculative theology. He understood the historicity of the Gospels reports as mythic mantle of early Christian thoughts and wanted to place a new dimension in the history of the life of Jesus Christ.
Strauss criticized the traditional view as a supernatural perspective, which had gebldet unconsciously from the legends. Strauss had the intention ‘to work out the goal of philosophical interpretation of the “eternal truths” in the myths of the Christian doctrine of Jesus. In his intention was not to clarify the historical foundations of the Gospels. Strauss made the accusation that he denied the New Testament report. In his writings lacked solutions which showed the development of the thought and the myth of Christianity and the New Testament report. This omission was dedicated to his university teachers FC Baur, the results of his student corrected considerably. Strauss was a result of the publication of his main work “The Life of Jesus Christ considered critical,” released by the Church authorities.
He left Tübingen and returned to his home town of Ludwigsburg. There, he initially found a job at a high school. In 1839 he became professor at the University of Zurich, but also his attitude towards the resistance was superior than the acceptance. In view of the fact that then, Strauss lived as a full time writer. In this work, he went on and on distance to the church. In the years 1840/41 Strauss published by the magazine “The Christian doctrine in its historical development and the struggle with modern knowledge represented” his second major work. Even in this he took a speculative theology, whose development he did not succeed completely. He held it firmly to the truths of faith and tried simultaneously to transform the faith “thoughts” into pure “terms”.
In the revolutionary year of 1848, Strauss sat as MP for the Liberals in the Württemberg Chamber. In continuation of its demythologizing of Christian Doctrine in 1863 was the title of “The life of Jesus, arranged for the German people.” This was the formal secession from Christianity. Jesus is in this third remarkable work sunk to herald a pure culture and religious conviction of humanity. 1865 was Strauss’ book “The Christ of faith and the Jesus of history” in rejoinder to Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher. A further increase in its criticism open the latest work “The ancient and the new faith” that place a bunch in the philosophical and knowing faith against the perceived Christianity as superfluous. This essay, in which he renounced final of Christianity, triggered outrage.
David Friedrich Strauss died on 8 February 1874 in Ludwigsburg.
