The Deicides: Analysis of the Life of Jesus, and of the Several Phases

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One great fact alone would have been sufficient to induce the Publishers to bring this work to the notice of the American thinking public, even though no other motive had impelled them to this step. This great fact is given expression by the author in the course of the work itself, when he says in his introduction, that "We are living in an epoch of religious crisis."

Such is indeed the case. Strauss and Renan, together with numerous co-adjutors, not only in Germany and France, but elsewhere on the continent, in England and also in this country, have conveyed the many and diverse rays of critical thought into which the exegetic study of the Gospels has divided the Protestant world, into somewhat of a common focus. All methods of criticism, all degrees of analysis, and all shades of belief and disbelief have, in a more or less definite form, found their expression. The interest which has thus been centered upon this field of inquiry has been such as to give the subject-matter of it a degree of prominence to which it had never before attained.

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