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Updated: May 12, 2025
I daresay, though, that if we could go back still other scores of centuries, we should find whole receding series of types of this Christ-myth of ours." Theron Ware sat upright at the fall of these words, and flung a swift, startled look about the room the instinctive glance of a man unexpectedly confronted with peril, and casting desperately about for means of defence and escape.
And from Strauss onwards a growingly influential and learned body of critics is inclined to regard the whole story of the Gospels as LEGENDARY. Arthur Drews, for instance, a professor at Karlsruhe, in his celebrated book The Christ-Myth, places David F. Strauss as first in the myth field though he allows that Dupuis in L'origine de tous les cultes had given the clue to the whole idea.
Renan had formally repudiated Catholicism, yet could write in his old age with the deepest filial affection of the Mother Church he had quitted. Father Forbes could talk coolly about the "Christ-myth" without even ceasing to be a priest, and apparently a very active and devoted priest.
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