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nephew and adopted son of emperor Tiberius, heir of the Roman Empire
Ferdinand Christian Baur
German theologian
Ferdinand Christian Baurwas a German Protestant theologian and founder and leader of theTubingen School of theologyand Gentile Christianity (Pauline Christianity).
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About the Ferdinand Christian Baur
Ferdinand Christian Baurwas a German Protestant theologian and founder and leader of theTubingen School of theologyand Gentile Christianity (Pauline Christianity). This and the rest of Baur’s work had a profound impact upon higher criticism of biblical and related texts.
Adolf Hilgenfeld followed Baur’s lead and edited the Tubingen School’s journal, though he was less radical than Baur. A patristic scholar and philosopher at Tubingen, Albert Schwegler, gave the School’s theories their most vigorous expression. The School’s influence peaked in the 1840s, but was waning by the early twentieth century.
Baur’s views were radical, but “one thing is certain: New Testament study, since his time, has had a different colour” (H.S. Nash). He had a number of followers, who in many cases modified his positions, and the groundwork laid by Baur continues to be built upon in the twenty-first century.
4 Quotes by Ferdinand Christian Baur
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer’s position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
Ferdinand Christian BaurGerman theologian