From the history of early Christianity. Collection of articles by A. Harnack, J. Wellhausen, and A. Julicher.

From the history of early Christianity. Collection of articles by A. Harnack, J. Wellhausen, and A. Julicher.
Moscow. Printing house of the Russian Association of printing and publishing, 1907. - 224 p. Publisher's cover, regular format (15.5 x 23.5 cm). The cover is worn, has tears, losses, including on the spine; single temporary spots on the pages; the copy is not cut or cropped.

Series: Religion and the Church in the light of scientific thought and free criticism. Book 2.

Translated from the German by N. M. Nikolsky.

[Karl Gustav Adolf von Harnack (7 may 1851, Dorpat, Russian Empire — 10 June 1930, Heidelberg, Weimar Republic) was a German Lutheran liberal theologian, Church historian, and author of fundamental works on the history of early Christian literature and the history of dogmas. Harnack is considered the successor of the theologian Albrecht Ritschl. He did not publish almost any work that did not cause a storm of criticism.

Julius Wellhausen (may 17, 1844, Hameln, Germany — January 7, 1918, göttingen, Germany) was a German orientalist whose contributions to the study of the history of ancient Israel and early Islam cannot be overstated.

Wellhausen's work became the pinnacle of the literary-critical method of Protestant historical theology; he believed that a critical analysis of the literary tradition in the sense of identifying its motives and sources (whether it is the old and New Testaments or early Islam) is the basis of any historical research. Wellhausen was critical of the School of the history of religions (for example, the works of Hermann Gunkel), which in his time was at an early stage of its development.

Adolf Jülicher (26 January 1857, Falkenberg — 2 August 1938, Marburg) was a German theologian and liberal biblical scholar.

The most famous work of Julicher was "the Parables of Jesus" ("Die Gleichnisreden Jesu", Freib., 1889, Bd. 1-2). In this extensive study, he made the first comparative literary analysis of the gospel parables, comparing them with the works of Greek literature. According to Jülicher's conclusion, the parables completely lack an allegorical element. Based on the belief that the parables are based on the true words of Jesus, he attempted to separate them from "later layers". In 1894, he published his Introduction to the New Testament (Einleitung in NT, Freib. - Lpz., 1894), which reflected the isagogic views of the Harnack school. Although jülicher referred to the Synoptics as "the second and third generation after Jesus, " He recognized that the SYNOPTIC image of Christ was so Grand and significant that it could not have been the creation of a community. In his book Paul and Jesus (1907), he developed the concept that the main merit of the Apostle Paul was to transform Christianity into a world religion. He regarded the Apostle's teaching itself as an inevitable complication of the "simple and direct Evangelical faith" that must be overcome in the future. Nevertheless, he saw in the Apostle Paul "the true heir of the spirit of Jesus." In response to Drews ' speech, which promoted the mythological theory of the origin of Christianity, Julicher responded with the book "did Jesus Exist?" ("Hat Jesus gelebt?", Marburg, 1910), in which he defended the historical reality of Christ. For a long time, he prepared a critical edition of the Italian translation of the gospel (MT was published in the year of Julicher's death, and MK and LK posthumously in 1940 and 1954).]