Bruno Bauer

“ The sanctuary of its evangelical history will be preserved to the church unharmed, for outside the gates the great crowd of unbelievers stands guard, who owe the treasures that divine inspiration has given them to the mysterious coldness of tradition. ”

“ The dissolution of the Christian world will take its course, but we will orient ourselves in it and assert ourselves in the midst of the general decay by getting to know its model, the dissolution of the Oriental and Classical antiquity, and Christianity itself as this dissolution. ”

“ It must be fully admitted to the students of Hegel that the philosophy of their master is perfect, straightforward, absolute. The world of the individual and the real cannot be more thorough and comprehensive than it was done by Hegel, an ideal, i. H. Subjected to chimerical universality and reality dissolves, yes, fetishism, which looks at the divine in every single thing and always only looks at the same divine, cannot be restored more fully and more vigorously. As an orthodox pupil of his master, Strauss knows only one power, one reality, one active substance in history. ”

“ Christianity, too, will remain and never be refuted, never be made to confess that it is refuted, — it will enjoy the same triumph that Judaism and the lowest fetish service won over its claims to autocracy. ”

“ The confusion of consciousness, in which all differences of the gospels are lost, will remain, but it will become harmless, when the most glaring contradiction, which is concentrated in the fourth gospel, the contradiction between its new tendencies and intentions and between presuppositions, which are only at home in the synoptic gospels, in these only really executed, can be denied by the believers, but can no longer be circumvented. ”

“ Nothing if the general indifference to detail helps the ecclesiastical consciousness and entitles it to save itself from the disintegration of the Gospels to the phrase of the Gospel and to balance and blunt the differences and contrasts of the real Gospels by means of that phrase. ”

“ Their appearance is the certain sign that the old has exhausted itself – has exhausted its power precisely in the bringing forth of the new. Zeus will no longer beget ideals – the law book of the Capitoline God is closed – the synagogue, besides the church, has no longer been able to discover and form anything of value for the world. ”

“ The world gives the old room to exist, but the innovators claim the power of progress and of historical shaping for themselves alone and, even if the struggle for this prerogative lasts for centuries, they will acquire it exclusively in the end. ”

“ Yes, it must be difficult to form a view that is no longer connected with the tangle of theological tongues, when scientifically educated theologians themselves in battle with Critite, in a moment in which they have to prove their foresight, To use the same categories with a naivety, even with an unconsciousness, which could be called extraordinary, if this threefold of unconsciousness could still be noticed in theologian. ”

“ Judaism still exists, after having followed Christianity on all its conquests, in order to remind it of its weakness and of the intemperance of its threats. The daughter, who wanted to be the child of heaven, has not been able to stifle the curses and abuses of her biological mother.
The World is big and still has room enough for the past, if it is already serving as a stage for the new prerogatives. ”

“ In the vivacity of Strauss's work, Hegelian metaphysics proved how incapable fie fey of grasping the soul of a historical apparition - when whites deceive the individual The happy successes that he achieved over Strauf failed, it happened because his positive philosophy, which he had developed in contrast to Hegel's, offered him only individual glimpses of light, but could not yet glow through the famed material, not yet illuminate it. ”

“ It will happen, but the decay, even the crashing collapse, will never be a victory, and the decaying cultural world of the West, which is afraid of its self-knowledge, will nevertheless become the prey of the Lord, who will only create the great terrain on which it is worth fighting and research will prove itself as the victor over antiquity. ”

“ Does it belong to that period in which the creative force is still laboriously trying out its object and in the stiff figures, in the awkward movements, in the hard groups that do not yet interpret themselves, in the figures that have not yet reached their essence? ”

“ To the prevailing formlessness, the simplified investigation, which determines from the scriptural construction of the Gospels their mutual relationship and their origin, will be regarded as formalism, as pure formalism, and the ecclesiastical consciousness will rejoice that its indifference to coherence and proportion finds a support in the popular aversion to strict definiteness. ”

“ Jehovah, who wanted to refute all gods of the earth, has had to surrender calmly to the fact that Zeus with his Olympic Round Table upholds the laws of ideal beauty and that the Capitoline God still decides today by his sayings the rights of the civilized world. ”

“ For habit protects them against this proof – the habit that dominates even those who have long since renounced obedience to the sanctity of the letter and make up for the indeterminacy of their unbelief by the veneration of the iota. ”

“ Shwegler to exclaim: "Hesiod, a hellenic original Evangelite, would have created Greek mythology in writing, Homer's prisoners, instead of in the mouth of Volts von To have inherited gender to gender would have been freely and creatively brought forward to the famed Hellenes!" [1] It say, I want to follow Herr Schwegler in Greek Uiterthum; I would like to announce that Gerodot {don’t put up the pabfurden ”Sak, Homer and Hefiod had created the gods of the Griedhen [2] but is the Entftes Hung of Hefiod’s Compofition flirted when there is another exercise”? ”

“ As far as whites are concerned at first, he countered the traditional hypothesis, according to which the authors of the Gospels had taken their material from the weaving delivery of the congregation and which Strauss had given its thorough implementation, with some happy statements. Besides, he was so happy to discover that the scriptures of Marcus were the gospel which the authors of the first and third gospels had practiced. ”

“ In short, there is a real historisches framework that leads Straugen back from the idea to the personality Jesu, but rather the weakness of this idea and its pervasive involvement with the believing foresight that one - one in a monotonous sense must have done everything. ”

“ Indeed! The question remains – only the answer will at the same time put this assertion of the evangelist in its true light. The examination of the historical entrance, which gave us reason for these questions and gave the evangelist the courage for his protesting assertion, will certainly prepare the decision. ”

“ The Testimony of the Baptist and the Finding of the Disciples.
C. 1, 19. – C. 2, 2.
The fate with which the fourth evangelist, in the historical entrance of his historical work, makes the forerunner of his Lord the center of a grouping, in which the fear and hope of the old man oppose the man who bears witness to the rising of the new, the long awaited sun of salvation, and allow himself to be pointed out by him as the giver of grace,——-. ”