The "Nocturnal Side of Science" in David Friedrich Strauss's Life of Jesus Critically Examined by Thomas FabisiakISBN: 9781628371109
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
This book takes a close look at how Strauss's engagement with popular and scholarly controversies influenced his study of the Gospels. Thomas Fabisiak illuminates unfamiliar features of early nineteenth-century theology, philosophy, and medicine showing how spirituality and science blended together in these fields. He also demonstrates the importance of Western esotericism and popular religion in the history of modern biblical studies and sheds new light on Strauss's study of the Gospels as myths.