David Friedrich Strauss, answered from the texts and cited to the page.
The predicates the church attached to one individual belong to the species. Humanity is the union of the divine and the human, and the idea does not require a single historical instance.123
According to Géschel and Gabler, because I do not recognize the idea as completely realized in one single human, but only in the totality of humanity, my conception of the idea is subjective since this totality of humanity is never given actually, but always exists only in thought." Let us consider a moment, what if the idea that attained complete presentation in one individual is the only one that could be…In Defense of My Life of Jesus Against the Hegelians, pp. 42–43
And is this no true realization of the idea? is not the idea of the unity of the divine and human natures a real one in a far higher sense, when I regard the whole race of mankind as its realization, than when I single out one man as such a realization? is not an incarnation of God from eternity, a truer one than an incarnation limited to a particular point of time.The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
Archetype, the actualization of the ideal of humanity, which his church can only approach, never surpass; yet must he,—for otherwise there could be no true fellowship between him and us,—have been developed under the ordinary conditions of human life: the ideal must in him have been perfectly historical, each phasis of his actual life must have borne the impress of the ideal; and this is the proper sense of the…The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
Held in 1835, largely dropped by 1864, and explicitly abandoned in 1872. The tension across the authorship is real and should be stated as tension.