The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined, Volume 1

David Friedrich Strauss

Jan 1846 · Chapman, brothers

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"The mythical and the allegorical view equally allow that the text apparently relates that which is historical, but they suppose the author(s), under influence of higher inspiration known or unknown to himself, to have made use of this historical semblance merely as the shell of an idea of' a religious conception. The only essential distinction therefore is that according to the allegorical this higher intelligence is the immediate divine agency; according to the mythical it is the spirit of a people or a community. Thus the allegorical view attributes the narrative to a supernatural source, while the mythical view ascribes it to that natural process by which legends are originated and developed. The mythical interpreter, in searching out the ideas which are embodied in the narrative, attempts conformity with the spirit and modes of thought of the people and of the age. p. 47