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53 relations: Albert Kalthoff, Albert Schweitzer, Alvar Ellegård, Arthur Drews, Bart D. Ehrman, Bern, Birkbeck, University of London, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Bruno Bauer, Christ myth theory, Cynicism (philosophy), David Strauss, Did Jesus Exist? (Ehrman), Did Jesus Exist? (Wells), Earl Doherty, Franz Grillparzer, Free Inquiry, Galilean, Galilee, Gerald A. Larue, German language, Gospel, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Matthew, Historical criticism, Historicity of Jesus, J. M. Robertson, Jesus, Johann Gottfried Herder, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Martin (philosopher), Mythology, Natural science, New Humanist, Open Court Publishing Company, Passion of Jesus, Paul-Louis Couchoud, Pauline epistles, Pergamon Press, Philosophy, Prometheus Books, Q source, R. Joseph Hoffmann, Rationalist Association, Robert E. Van Voorst, Robert M. Price, Ronald Englefield, St Albans, University of London, William Benjamin Smith, ..., William Hugh Clifford Frend, William Wrede, Wisdom literature. Expand index (3 more) »
Albert Kalthoff
Albert Kalthoff (5 March 1850 in Barmen – 11 May 1906 in Bremen) was a German Protestant theologian, who along with Emil Felden (1874-1959), Oscar Mauritz (1867-1958), Moritz Schwalb (1833-1916) and Friedrich Steudel (1866-1939) formed a group in Bremen, named the Deutscher Monistenbund (German Monists League), who no longer believed in Jesus as a historical figure.
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Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer, OM (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a French-German theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.
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Alvar Ellegård
Alvar Ellegård (November 12, 1919 – February 8, 2008) was a Swedish linguist and scholar.
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Arthur Drews
Christian Heinrich Arthur Drews (November 1, 1865 – July 19, 1935) was a German writer, historian, philosopher, and important representative of German monist thought.
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Bart D. Ehrman
Bart Denton Ehrman (born October 5, 1955) is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the development of early Christianity.
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Bern
Bern or Berne (Bern, Bärn, Berne, Berna, Berna) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".
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Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London (formally, Birkbeck College; informally, Birkbeck), is a public research university located in Bloomsbury, London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.
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British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies (BSECS) is an interdisciplinary scholarly society based in the United Kingdom which promotes the study of all aspects of 18th-century cultural history.
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Bruno Bauer
Bruno Bauer (6 September 180913 April 1882) was a German philosopher and historian.
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Christ myth theory
The Christ myth theory (also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism, mythicism, or Jesus ahistoricity theory) is "the view that the person known as Jesus of Nazareth had no historical existence." Alternatively, in terms given by Bart Ehrman as per his criticism of mythicism, "the historical Jesus did not exist.
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Cynicism (philosophy)
Cynicism (κυνισμός) is a school of thought of ancient Greek philosophy as practiced by the Cynics (Κυνικοί, Cynici).
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David Strauss
David Friedrich Strauss (Strauß; January 27, 1808 in Ludwigsburg – February 8, 1874 in Ludwigsburg) was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he denied.
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Did Jesus Exist? (Ehrman)
Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth is a 2012 book by the academic and author Bart Ehrman, a leading scholar of the New Testament and writer of over twenty-five books (including three college textbooks) in that field of study.
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Did Jesus Exist? (Wells)
Did Jesus Exist? is a 1975 book written by the modern German historian George Albert Wells who speculated on the evidence of Jesus Christ.
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Earl Doherty
Earl J. Doherty (born 1941) is a Canadian author of The Jesus Puzzle (1999), Challenging the Verdict (2001), and Jesus: Neither God Nor Man (2009).
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Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas.
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Free Inquiry
Free Inquiry is a bi-monthly journal of secular humanist opinion and commentary published by the Council for Secular Humanism, which is a program of the Center for Inquiry.
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Galilean
Generically, a Galilean is an inhabitant of Galilee.
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Galilee
Galilee (הגליל, transliteration HaGalil); (الجليل, translit. al-Jalīl) is a region in northern Israel.
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Gerald A. Larue
Gerald Alexander Larue (June 20, 1916 in Calgary – September 17, 2014 in Newport Beach, California) was an American scholar of religion and professor emeritus of gerontology, a former ordained minister who became an agnostic, archaeologist, debunker of biblical stories and accounts of miracles, and humanist.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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Gospel
Gospel is the Old English translation of Greek εὐαγγέλιον, evangelion, meaning "good news".
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Gospel of Luke
The Gospel According to Luke (Τὸ κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγέλιον, to kata Loukan evangelion), also called the Gospel of Luke, or simply Luke, is the third of the four canonical Gospels.
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Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel According to Matthew (translit; also called the Gospel of Matthew or simply, Matthew) is the first book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic gospels.
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Historical criticism
Historical criticism, also known as the historical-critical method or higher criticism, is a branch of criticism that investigates the origins of ancient texts in order to understand "the world behind the text".
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Historicity of Jesus
The historicity of Jesus concerns the degree to which sources show Jesus of Nazareth existed as a historical figure.
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J. M. Robertson
John Mackinnon Robertson PC (14 November 1856 – 5 January 1933) was a prolific journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918.
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Jesus
Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
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Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried (after 1802, von) Herder (25 August 174418 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic.
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Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (28 July 1804 – 13 September 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity which strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Richard Wagner, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Michael Martin (philosopher)
Michael L. Martin (February 3, 1932 – May 27, 2015) was an American philosopher and former professor at Boston University.
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Mythology
Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.
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Natural science
Natural science is a branch of science concerned with the description, prediction, and understanding of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.
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New Humanist
New Humanist is a quarterly magazine, published by the Rationalist Association in the UK, that focuses on culture, news, philosophy, and science from a sceptical perspective.
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Open Court Publishing Company
The Open Court Publishing Company is a publisher with offices in Chicago and La Salle, Illinois.
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Passion of Jesus
In Christianity, the Passion (from Late Latin: passionem "suffering, enduring") is the short final period in the life of Jesus covering his entrance visit to Jerusalem and leading to his crucifixion on Mount Calvary, defining the climactic event central to Christian doctrine of salvation history.
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Paul-Louis Couchoud
Paul-Louis Couchoud, was born on July 6, 1879, at Vienne, Isère and died there on April 8, 1959.
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Pauline epistles
The Pauline epistles, Epistles of Paul, or Letters of Paul, are the 13 New Testament books which have the name Paul (Παῦλος) as the first word, hence claiming authorship by Paul the Apostle.
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Pergamon Press
Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, which published scientific and medical books and journals.
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
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Prometheus Books
Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz (who was also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry).
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Q source
The Q source (also Q document, Q Gospel, or Q from Quelle, meaning "source") is a hypothetical written collection of primarily Jesus' sayings (logia).
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R. Joseph Hoffmann
Raymond Joseph Hoffmann is a historian whose work has focused on the early social and intellectual development of Christianity.
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Rationalist Association
The Rationalist Association, originally the Rationalist Press Association, is an organisation in the United Kingdom, founded in 1885 by a group of free thinkers who were unhappy with the increasingly political and decreasingly intellectual tenor of the British secularist movement.
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Robert E. Van Voorst
Robert E. Van Voorst (born 5 June 1952) is an American theologian and educator.
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Robert M. Price
Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American theologian and writer, known for arguing against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. He is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus. A former Baptist minister, he was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush. Price is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, a group of 150 writers and scholars who study the historicity of Jesus, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. Secular Student Alliance, accessed April 15, 2010. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist.
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Ronald Englefield
Frederick Ronald Hastings Englefield (1891–1975) was an English poet and philosopher.
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St Albans
St Albans is a city in Hertfordshire, England, and the major urban area in the City and District of St Albans.
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University of London
The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.
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William Benjamin Smith
William Benjamin Smith (October 26, 1850 – August 6, 1934) was a professor of mathematics at Tulane University, best known as a proponent of the Christ myth theory.
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William Hugh Clifford Frend
William Hugh Clifford Frend (11 January 1916 – 1 August 2005) was an English ecclesiastical historian, archaeologist and Anglican priest.
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William Wrede
Georg Friedrich Eduard William Wrede (10 May 1859 – 23 November 1906) was a German Lutheran theologian.
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Wisdom literature
Wisdom literature is a genre of literature common in the ancient Near East.
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