Excerpt from Antichrist: Including the Period From the Arrival of Paul in Rome to the End of the Jewish Revolution Tubingen school, dating from F. C. Baur, has been to conceive the Jews of the first century in the mass as fed on logic and rigid in their deductions. Peter, Paul, even Jesus, in the writings Of this school, argue like Protestant professors in a German university; each has his own doctrine; each has but one, which he keeps always just the same. The truth is, those noble men, the true heroes of this story, ...
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Excerpt from Antichrist: Including the Period From the Arrival of Paul in Rome to the End of the Jewish Revolution Tubingen school, dating from F. C. Baur, has been to conceive the Jews of the first century in the mass as fed on logic and rigid in their deductions. Peter, Paul, even Jesus, in the writings Of this school, argue like Protestant professors in a German university; each has his own doctrine; each has but one, which he keeps always just the same. The truth is, those noble men, the true heroes of this story, Often change their view and contradict themselves; in the course Of their life they assume three or four varying theories at one time they borrow views from their opponents, which at another time they sharply contradict. Seen from our point Of view, these men are open to quick impressions, personal, irritable, changeful; what makes fixity in Opinion, science or pure reason, is wholly un known to them. Like Jews Of every time, they have angry dis putes among themselves, yet make together a very compact body. To understand them, we must clear ourselves of the pedantry inseparable from all academic methods we must rather study the petty groups and cliques Of the religious world, the Congregations Of England and America, and in particular what goes on in the founding Of all religious Orders. In this regard the theological faculties in German universities the best in the world to supply the enormous toil needed to bring into shape the chaos of documents bearing on these Obscure beginnings are the worst in the world to undertake the task of a real history. For history is the interpretation Of an un folding life, an expanding germ, while theology (so to speak) reads life backward. Attending merely to what confirms or invalidates his doctrine, even the most liberal of theologians is unconsciously an advocate: his aim is to defend or else refute. The aim Of the historian is simply to tell the fact. He finds a value in what may be in substance false, in documents even spurious; for they paint the soul, and are Often truer than barren fact. In his view it were the greatest of errors to regard as defenders of abstract Opinions those good and simple minded dreamers, whose dreams through all these ages have been a consolation and a joy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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