David Strauss Quotes on God
David Friedrich Strauss was a German Protestant theologian, philosopher, and biographer and one of the most controversial religious thinkers of the nineteenth century. This page collects quotes attributed to David Strauss on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to David Strauss:
“The miracles of the Gospels are products of mythic religious imagination.”
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Attributed to David Strauss:
“Jesus the historical person and Christ the dogmatic figure must be carefully distinguished.”
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Attributed to David Strauss:
“Religion must be read as it actually grew, not as later orthodoxy declared.”
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Attributed to David Strauss:
“What was sacred to one age becomes the historical document of another.”
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Attributed to David Strauss:
“Faith and history are not the same kind of knowledge.”