The Old Faith and the New : 9781573921183

German philosopher and radical theologian David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874) distinguished himself as one of Europe's most controversial critics of the Bible and an intellectual martyr for freethought. In The Old Faith & the New (1872) he uses both 19th- century science and leading philosophers to reject God as the creator of the universe and humankind, the divinity of Christ, and the reality of miracles (the Old Faith), thus consigning religion to the domains of history, myth, and ethics. With Christianity's cosmology undermined, Strauss constructs a new view of the universe and humanity's place in it grounded in science and contemporary technology, Darwinian evolution, and inductive reasoning (the New Faith), all of which offered the hope of finding solutions to human problems.

Author: David Friedrich Strauss

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Publication Date: Feb 01, 1997

Number of Pages: 403 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 1573921181

ISBN-13: 9781573921183