[200] See Christianity and Mythology, 2nd ed. pp. 341, 357.
[201] A propos d'histoire des religions, p. 294.
[203] J. W. Straatman, in Critical Studies on First Corinthians, 1863-65, cited by Mr. Whittaker.
[204] W. Seufert, Der Ursprung und die Bedeutung des Apostolates, 1887, p. 46; Sir G. W. Cox, lect. in Religious Systems of the World, 3rd ed. p. 242.
[205] A propos d'histoire des religions, p. 295.
[207] Les évangiles, i, 172, 173. Contrast the case put long ago by Zeller, The Acts of the Apostles, Eng. tr. 1875, i, 129-30.
[208] Compare, however, the elaborate essay of Prof. G. A. Deissmann, in his Bible Studies (Eng. tr. 1901), on "Letters and Epistles," p. 48.
[209] Short History of Christianity, 2nd ed. p. 4.
[210] Wieland was something of a Freethinker; but when Napoleon in the famous interview mooted the problem raised by Dupuis and Volney, Wieland treated it as pure absurdity. He was then an old man.
[211] The Quest of the Historical Jesus (Eng. tr. of Von Reimarus zu Wrede), 1910, p. 153.
[218] Compare Dalman, The Words of Jesus, p. 313.
[219] I.e., the old German "rationalism" so-called, the theological method of compromise with reason.
[221] Adonis, Attis, Osiris, 3rd ed. (vols. v and vi of 3rd ed. of The Golden Bough) i, 312, note. See the passage discussed in Christianity and Mythology, 2nd ed. p. 281.
[222] Adonis, Attis, Osiris, as cited, ii, 19 sq., and pref. to vol. i.
[223] Compare Prof. W. B. Smith's criticism of the "great man" theory as put by Von Soden--Ecce Deus, p. 9 sq.
[224] See the brochure of Prof. R. H. Grützmacher, Ist das liberale Jesusbild modern? 1907.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Historical Jesus, by John M. Robertson