Ferdinand Christian Baur
Ferdinand Christian Baur
Ferdinand Christian Baurwas a German Protestant theologian and founder and leader of theTübingen School of theology. Following Hegel's theory of dialectic, Baur argued that second century Christianity represented the synthesis of two opposing theses: Jewish Christianityand Gentile Christianity. This and the rest of Baur's work had a profound impact upon higher criticism of biblical and related texts...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth21 June 1792
CountryGermany
It rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus to settle within himself to which of the two religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will adhere.
What kind of authority can there be for an 'Apostle' who, unlike the other Apostles, had never been prepared for the Apostolic office in Jesus' own school but had only later dared to claim the Apostolic office on the basis of his own authority? The only question comes to be how the apostle Paul appears in his Epistles to be so indifferent to the historical facts of the life of Jesus....He bears himself but little like a disciple who has received the doctrines and the principles which he preaches from the Master whose name he bears.