Despite characterizing himself as the antichrist, Nietzsche had great respect for Jesus and his message and often identified with his life. His opinion of early Christianity—and particularly of St. Paul, the single most hated figure in Nietzsche's passionate career—however, was very different. This volume brings order to Nietzsche's scattered reflections on Jesus, St. Paul, and the birth of Christianity by tracing the development of his ideas and examining the intellectual reality behind his deliberately confrontational remarks concerning early Christianity's key players. By analyzing exactly what it is that Nietzsche celebrates and identifies with in the life and message of Jesus, and criticizes so harshly in the case of St. Paul, the author provides fresh insight into the mind and the philosophy of one of the 19th century's most original thinkers.
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?Sympathetic to Nietzsche's project, Morgan Rempel has provided Nietzsche scholars with a detailed monograph on Nietzsche's psychological history of Christianity, whose chief value, I suspect lies particularly in its extended exposition and treatment of Nietzsche's analyses of St. Paul, certainly a much neglected area in the Nietzsche literature Nietzsche, Psychohistory, and the Birth of Christianity admirably fills this lacuna and therefore must be recommended to Nietzsche scholars working in the area of Nietzsche and Christianity, and indeed more generally to scholars in the area of Nietzsche, psychology and religion.?-Studies in Religion
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Traces the development of Nietzsche's ideas on Jesus, St. Paul, and early Christianity.
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Buried in aphorism 235 of Volume I of Human, All Too Human (1878), as little more than an aside in a larger discussion of why the "highest intelligence and the warmest heart cannot coexist in the same person," lies a revealing characterization of Jesus as one "possessing the warmest heart." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
consummating death, extremest fanaticism, intractable lust for power, unfulfilled law cannot, untutored faith, bearing before the judges, tonic emotions, morbid susceptibility, notes from the period, protracted torment, foremost psychologist, fanatical persecution, moral preacher, unfulfillable promises, extraordinary soul, holy lie, guilt sacrifice, moral despair, literary autobiography, instinctive hatred, physiological realities, gay science, voluntary death, lust for domination, intellectual benefit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nietzsche's Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, Nietzschean Jesus, New Testament, Ecce Homo, Nietzsche's Paul, Hebrew Jesus, Pauline Christianity, Genealogy of Morals, Apostle Paul, Old Testament, Second Coming, Paul of Tarsus, Roman Empire, Twilight of the Idols, Monsieur Renan, Nietzsche's Zarathustra, Paul the Apostle, Pharisee Paul New!
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Buried in aphorism 235 of Volume I of Human, All Too Human (1878), as little more than an aside in a larger discussion of why the "highest intelligence and the warmest heart cannot coexist in the same person," lies a revealing characterization of Jesus as one "possessing the warmest heart." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
consummating death, extremest fanaticism, intractable lust for power, unfulfilled law cannot, untutored faith, bearing before the judges, tonic emotions, morbid susceptibility, notes from the period, protracted torment, foremost psychologist, fanatical persecution, moral preacher, unfulfillable promises, extraordinary soul, holy lie, guilt sacrifice, moral despair, literary autobiography, instinctive hatred, physiological realities, gay science, voluntary death, lust for domination, intellectual benefit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nietzsche's Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, Nietzschean Jesus, New Testament, Ecce Homo, Nietzsche's Paul, Hebrew Jesus, Pauline Christianity, Genealogy of Morals, Apostle Paul, Old Testament, Second Coming, Paul of Tarsus, Roman Empire, Twilight of the Idols, Monsieur Renan, Nietzsche's Zarathustra, Paul the Apostle, Pharisee Paul New!
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- The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche on 28 pages
- Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche on 18 pages
- The Gay Science (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 18 pages
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche on 17 pages
- Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is; Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 13 pages
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