Talk:Ferdinand Christian Baur

Severe bias
This article reads as an anti Tübingen school apology. I think it needs a top to bottom NPOV cleaning. So I want to sort open this up for conversation to see who is out there in terms of watching this article and what you think. jbolden1517Talk 06:12, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Almost nobody gets excited by the Tubingen School; or, even the Jesus Seminar. Robert Price has been trying to bring back interest in Baur but without much success.71.76.193.38 (talk) 00:42, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Excitement is a strange point to base an assessment on. Certainly, Baur has to be viewed against the backdrop of current scholarship and his existence at, for all intents and purposes, the very begining of critical scholarship. Spiker 22 (talk) 16:00, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Articles

 * http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc02/htm/iv.iv.xx.htm

Antisemitism
Is there any evidence to suggest that Baur's exegesis might have promoted antisemitism in 19th century and 20th century Germany ? The distinctions he commonly made between Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians were probably convenient for German Aryan ideologues who were looking to purify Christianity from its alleged Jewish roots. If anything, Baur's exegesis is a type of continuation with that of Marcion of Sinope, an early Gnostic bishop who was really the first to suggest that there really was such as thing as Pauline Christianity. Most contemporary scholars consider Paul to have been strongly Jewish anyways (cf Paul of Tarsus and Judaism). ADM (talk) 06:05, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Hegelian influence
"Following Hegel's theory of dialectic, Baur argued that second century Christianity represented the synthesis of two opposing theses: Jewish Christianity (Petrine Christianity) and Gentile Christianity (Pauline Christianity).

This is not Hegel's "theory of dialectic". Im not sure Hegel had something called a theory of dialectic. There's certainly no thesis anti-thesis, synthesis in Hegel. Perhaps this line should be removed since the author doesnt seem to know what he is talking about. Likewise, the section titled Hegelian influence says nothing about Hegel's influence, except it tells us Baur is supposed to have "adopted Hegel's theory of history". This whole line of argument obscures more than it reveals. Spiker 22 (talk) 22:58, 26 June 2019 (UTC)