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Franz Overbeck's Inaugural Lecture in Basel (1870)
Ist Teil von
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 2014-09, Vol.158 (3), p.248-277
Ort / Verlag
Philadelphia: THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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Protestantism has forced the Catholic Church, in the Tridentine Confession of Faith, to erect an insurmountable wall between itself and the fulfillment of the endless task, embracing all earthly life, that it has set itself. Since Trent, Catholicism has simply been living from its own inflexible, dogmatic logic, and has finally withered away, ending in a series of dogmas such as the one that is to be produced today before our very eyes.37 To preserve Protestantism from such a fate is the best outcome Protestantism can strive for in pursuing modern biblical criticism, even if such biblical criticism abolishes to some extent the authority of the past. [...]whatever the legitimacy and necessity of modern biblical criticism in other respects may be, whoever works with the intention of fulfilling its goals will be least assailed by doubts in his labors, so long as he still has a moral relationship to Protestantism, and so long as he still has a lively sense of the inestimable benefits of purer faith and deeper insight that we owe to Protestantism and its first intrepid champions.