Vie de Jésus by Ernest Renan

"Vie de Jésus" by Ernest Renan is an essay published in 1863. Drawing from his archaeological expedition to the Holy Land, Renan presents Jesus as a moral figure while rejecting divine intervention and the supernatural. He applies rigorous historical criticism to the Gospels, treating them as documents to be examined like any other. The book sparked immediate scandal, especially within the Catholic Church, yet became one of Europe's major bestsellers, selling hundreds of thousands of copies and generating over three hundred written responses within months. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892
Title Vie de Jésus
Series Title Histoire des origines du christianisme, livre 1
Note Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vie_de_J%C3%A9sus_(Renan)
Credits Miranda van de Heijning, Wilelmina Mallière and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 70.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class BT: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Doctrinal theology, God, Christology
Subject Jesus Christ -- Biography
Subject Christian biography -- Palestine
Category Text
EBook-No. 15113
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Mar 18, 2023
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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