The Old Faith and the New: A Confession, Volumer 1-2Holt, 1873 - 439 sider In his final work, The Old Faith and the New (1872), Strauss abandons Christianity altogether and turns to a critique of theism in general: Relying on contemporary science and leading philosophers, he rejects God as the creator of the universe and humankind, the divinity of Christ, and the reality of miracles (the Old Faith), thus confining religion to the domains of history, myth, and ethics. With the Christian cosmology undermined, Strauss constructs a new view of the universe and humanity's place in it which is grounded in science and technology, Darwinian evolution, and inductive reasoning (the New Faith), all of which hold out the hope of finding true solutions to human problems. |
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Side viii
... duty . It is in truth an ungracious and thankless office to have to tell the world what it least wishes to hear . The world lives with no end of outlay , like some grand lord ; takes and spends so long as there viii Prefatory Postscript .
... duty . It is in truth an ungracious and thankless office to have to tell the world what it least wishes to hear . The world lives with no end of outlay , like some grand lord ; takes and spends so long as there viii Prefatory Postscript .
Side xxxi
... wish it were otherwise . We have quit the church in a perfectly honorable way , and here outside of it we lack nothing : why then should we complain that we are not within ? This very thing , viz . , the desire of firmly impressing on ...
... wish it were otherwise . We have quit the church in a perfectly honorable way , and here outside of it we lack nothing : why then should we complain that we are not within ? This very thing , viz . , the desire of firmly impressing on ...
Side xxxii
... wish it were otherwise , " was my chief motive in the composition and publica- tion of my Confession . To the same end I recount- ed the incredible and contradictory dogmas we left behind when we quit the church , and the crucifixion of ...
... wish it were otherwise , " was my chief motive in the composition and publica- tion of my Confession . To the same end I recount- ed the incredible and contradictory dogmas we left behind when we quit the church , and the crucifixion of ...
Side 7
... wish no change whatever in the world at large . It does not occur to us to wish to destroy any church , as we know that a church is still a necessity for a large majority . For a new con- structive organization ( not of a church , but ...
... wish no change whatever in the world at large . It does not occur to us to wish to destroy any church , as we know that a church is still a necessity for a large majority . For a new con- structive organization ( not of a church , but ...
Side 22
... wishes to ex- plain how all the evil and misery under which man suffers at present came into a world which God must undoubtedly have created good . The fault of God it cannot be , entirely man's it must not be . Α tempter , therefore ...
... wishes to ex- plain how all the evil and misery under which man suffers at present came into a world which God must undoubtedly have created good . The fault of God it cannot be , entirely man's it must not be . Α tempter , therefore ...
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The Old Faith and the New: A Confession, Volumer 1-2 David Friedrich Strauss Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1873 |
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Side 14 - Faith ; which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance.
Side 26 - Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried, He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead, He ascended into heaven, And sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
Side 8 - And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Side 213 - In the enormous machine of the universe, amid the incessant whirl and hiss of its jagged iron wheels, amid the deafening crash of its ponderous stamps and hammers, in the midst of this whole terrific commotion, man, a helpless and defenceless •creature, finds himself placed, not secure for a moment that, on an imprudent motion, a wheel may not seize and rend him or a hammer crush him to powder. This sense of abandonment is at first something awful.
Side 163 - But this much at least is certain, — that the personal image which meets our gaze, there is but a reflection of the wondering spectator himself.
Side 121 - ... affirm that self-consciousness of necessity implies a centre or focus, at which the scattered rays of individuality are gathered up, is assuredly to transgress by the unwarranted use of a physical analogy. I may here quote from Strauss, who always states his case with force and clearness : — The modern monotheistic conception of God has two sides, that of the Absolute and that of the Personal, which, although united in Him, are so in the same manner as that in which two qualities are sometimes...