"The religious principle of Jesus was thus certainly freed by Paul from its original Jewish and national husk, but only to be immediately clothed again in a new supernaturalistic envelope, the origin of which likewise lay in the historically given ideas of Hellenism and Pharisaism. Therefore the Pauline Christ can just as little be for us a binding object of faith as the Jesus of history."
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Otto Pfleiderer
Otto Pfleiderer (1 September 1839 – 28 July 1908) was a German Protestant theologian.
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