Otto Pfleiderer

"The apostle Paul … was conscious of the new in his apprehension of the gospel over against the primitive Jewish-Christian Church, and based the right of his apostolic preaching not upon human traditio…"

"The Philosophy of Religion: On the Basis of Its History, Vol. 1, 1886 · Vol. 2, 1887 · Vol. 4, 1888 · Vol. 1, 1894 · Vol. 2, 1894 · Vol. 3, 1888 · Vol. 4, 1894"

"Especially do the evils of the times, the folly and blindness of the masses, the injustice of rulers, the perversion of religion in unfruitful ceremonialism work upon the souls more finely attuned as …"

"Religion and Historic Faiths"

"What has here been remarked in general of the prophets as the champions of religious progress is also true in particular of him who as the most perfect blossom of the religious development of Israel c…"

"The fundamental error of the theologians of the new faith of the present day consists in this, that they think one can without hesitation acknowledge the validity of the same scientific method in the …"

"The Development of Theology since Kant"

"Not to return to the old … can be the task of our time, but to clothe the spirit of Christianity, its religious-ethical principle, which lay as a compelling force at the basis of all preceding develop…"