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Nietzsche and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
In order to contextualize the view of Jesus presented in The Anti-Christ as well as elsewhere, this chapter examines older examples of the critique...
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The Case of the Aryan Jesus Dogma: Enlarging Entitlement through Propaganda
In a national effort to promote antisemitism, the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence (ISEJI) was established in Nazi...
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Religious Hinges: Some Historical Precursors
Recently, hinge epistemologists have applied Wittgenstein’s metaphor of hinges to religious belief. The most prominent proposal in this context is...
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Christology and the Modern World: Science, Poetry, Art, and Jesus the Christ
To overcome the conflict between modern consciousness and the biblical world it seems necessary to create new images and metaphors which include the...
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Chapter 1 Brentano’s The Teaching of Jesus 100 Years Later: An Historical Introduction
In 1870, Franz Brentano withdrew to the Benedictine monastery at Andechs in Bavaria to re-evaluate his continued commitment to the priesthood. The...
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Semiotic Function of Kabbalah Mystical Experience in the Interpretation of Historical Situations
These notes are the attempt to provide a semiotic interpretation of the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah in the whole course of Jewish history...
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Does Klio Count, Too? Measurement and Understanding in Historical Science
“History is the narration of events through which we learn about what happened in the past.”—With these words Isidore, Bishop of Seville, described...
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God becoming flesh, flesh becoming divine
What could be the meaning of Christianity on this side or beyond its most traditional transmission? This paper suggests that it could be an...
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Nietzsche, David Friedrich Strauß, and the Post-Straussian Tradition
Via the figure of the German poet Eduard Mörike, this chapter opens by reviewing the significance of the liberal Protestant theologian David...
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Correction to: Brentano’s The Teaching of Jesus 100 Years Later: An Historical Introduction
This chapter was inadvertently published with the Dr. Brentano as the chapter author instead of Dr. Schaefer. It is now corrected to reflect Dr....
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Pathogenesis: Freud’s Paul and the question of historical truth
This article retrieves Freud’s Paul as a forgotten predecessor and untapped critic of the “return to Paul” in contemporary political theology and...
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Nietzsche and St Paul
This chapter examines the importance for Nietzsche of methods (cf. AC §13 and §59), and Nietzsche’s portrait of Christ (cf. AC §29 and §32), while...
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Transubstantiation and Quantum Mechanical Theory
This chapter begins with an overview of how the concept of religious covenant justifies the “law” of transubstantiation because both exemplify how...
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Edmund Husserl on the Historicity of the Gospels. A Different Look at Husserl’s Philosophy of Religion and his Philosophy of the History of Philosophy
There is an obscure but recurring strain of Edmund Husserl’s theological ideas, simultaneously bearing on the question of the historicity of...
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Theological and Historical Background
This chapter introduces the philosophical and theological motivations for the traditional insistence on the resurrection of the body. Central among...
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The Physics and Metaphysics of Transubstantiation
In this book, Mark P. Fusco offers a historical, philosophical and theological review and appraisal of current research into quantum, post-modern,...
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Historical Processes: Embodied/Embedded
This Chapter explores the ethical use of animals in the making of art, not only posthumously, but as absent referents. Many depictions of animals...