Die christliche Glaubenslehre in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung und im Kampfe mit der modernen Wissenschaft dargestellt. Tübingen und Stuttgart: Osiander und Köhler, 1840, 1841.

STRAUSS, David Friedrich

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First edition of Strauss's follow-up to 'the most pestilential book ever vomited out of the jaws of hell' (Lord Shaftesbury), Das Leben Jesu. 'In a second work, Die christliche Glaubenslehre, Strauss tried to clarify the theoretical basis of his original historical inquiry. He argued that Christianity was a stage in the evolution of a true pantheism that had reached its culmination in Hegelian philosophy. What the poet and mystic took for God was nothing but the world - specifically, man in the world - conceived in aesthetic terms. Science studied the same phenomena that are governed by physical laws, and philosophy was, as Hegel had taught, mind reflecting on these prior activities of thought and imagination' (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). 2 volumes, large 8vo, xvi, 717, [1]; viii, 739, [1] pp., contemporary boards, worn at extremities and slight loss to one spine label, foxing throughout but a clean copy without stamps or inscriptions.

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• Title: Die christliche Glaubenslehre in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung und im Kampfe mit der modernen Wissenschaft dargestellt. Tübingen und Stuttgart: Osiander und Köhler, 1840, 1841.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theology
  • Philosophy