Abstract: Abstract This chapter profiles Catholic scholars who, unlike the majority of Catholics in the early nineteenth century, appropriated the tools of historical criticism in the interpretation of the text and the contents of the New Testament. Johann Leonhard Hug, the most important Catholic exegete of the first half of the century, contributed to the textual criticism of the New Testament and to the debate about the synoptic problem. He and Martin Josef Mack wrote extensive critiques of D. F. Strauss’s Life of Jesus (1835). Johannes Kuhn, an outstanding member of the Catholic Tübingen School, not only criticized Strauss’s work, but also, as a counterpoint to Strauss’s, wrote his own Life of Jesus (1838), which won praise as a pioneering work while also eliciting reproach from more conservative Catholics. All three Catholics engaged the Protestant scholarship of their day; all three sought to balance critical historical methodology with their Catholic theological convictions.
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Date: 2023-06-15
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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