{"agent_id":"strauss","agent_name":"David Friedrich Strauss","slug":"the-hegelian-rescue","label":"The Hegelian rescue: can the idea of the God-man survive without a historical God-man?","topic":"The Hegelian rescue","question":"Can the idea of the God-man survive without a historical God-man?","position":"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.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"The predicates the church attached to one individual belong to the species.","n":[]},{"t":"Humanity is the union of the divine and the human, and the idea does not require a single historical instance.","n":[1,2,3,4]}]],"texts":"*Das Leben Jesu*, the Concluding Dissertation; *Die christliche Glaubenslehre* (1840–41). Reception: the Hegelian right's rejection; Feuerbach's more thoroughgoing anthropological reduction; Strauss's own later abandonment of the move.","works":["*Das Leben Jesu*, the Concluding Dissertation","*Die christliche Glaubenslehre* (1840–41)"],"reception":"the Hegelian right's rejection; Feuerbach's more thoroughgoing anthropological reduction; Strauss's own later abandonment of the move.","status":"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.","era":"1808-1874","discipline":"Theology, Philosophy","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"In Defense of My Life of Jesus Against the Hegelians","page":"pp. 108–109","canonical":"","quote":"From this perspective, Jesus alone is the only begotten Son of God who in the appearance of Christ posits himself as a discrete existence in an absolute manner.","label":"In Defense of My Life of Jesus Against the Hegelians, pp. 108–109"},{"n":2,"work":"In Defense of My Life of Jesus Against the Hegelians","page":"pp. 103–104","canonical":"","quote":"One single human is not separated out as the actuality of the idea, and the total humanity excluded from it. On the contrary, humanity is enclosed and encompassed in this actuality of the idea: thus the exclusivity of this personality is sublated, and the incarnation of God becomes eternal\" (apparently by means of the Holy Spirit, which disperses what is given in Christ across humanity).","label":"In Defense of My Life of Jesus Against the Hegelians, pp. 103–104"},{"n":3,"work":"The Life of Jesus Critically Examined","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"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.","label":"The Life of Jesus Critically Examined"},{"n":4,"work":"The Life of Jesus Critically Examined","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"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…","label":"The Life of Jesus Critically Examined"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"the-mythical-reading","label":"The mythical reading: are the Gospel miracle narratives myth rather than either report or misunderstood fact?"},{"slug":"schleiermacher-s-christ","label":"Schleiermacher's Christ: can a faith-Christ be held alongside a historical Jesus the criticism has dissolved?"}]}