Author: Renan, Ernest.
Title: Vie de Jesus. Par Ernest Renan, Membre de L'Institut.
Description: Berlin: Jul. Springer, 1863. 1863. - Octavo, bound in later green marbled boards backed with a plain green cloth spine. The covers are rubbed with some slight chipping to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine. 298 pages. The hinges are cracked and the text block is loose in its casing. The front endpaper is nearly detached. The pages are darkened with some foxing throughout. Good.

The first Berlin edition, published in the same year as the first Paris edition.

".. Meanwhile he had published his 'Life of Jesus', which had an immediate and resounding success both at home and abroad. In six months sixty thousand copies of the French edition had been sold and edition succeeded edition. Renan regarded the book as the first of a series on the 'Origins of Christianity', which he continued with 'The Apostles' (1866), 'Saint Paul' (1869), 'The Anti-Christ' (1873), 'The Gospels' (1877), 'The Christian Church' (1879) and 'Marcus Aurelius' (1881) but none of these emulated the success of the 'Life of Jesus'.. Immediate success was partly a succes de scandale but this would not have kept the book alive. It is Renan's approach to the subject and his beautiful prose that gave it lasting eminence.. Renan's theory of history was based on personalities, and in reconstructing it he endeavoured always to penetrate and to expound the psychology of the leading characters.. It is a pastoral idyll with the central figure a gentle, albeit oracular visionary, his powers to work miracles a part of his unique personality -- the son of man, but not the Son of God.." -- Printing and the Mind of Man #352. Good .

Keywords: RELIGION; ERNEST RENAN; LA VIE DE JESUS; LIFE OF JESUS; FIRST BERLIN EDITION; 1ST; CHRISTIAN; CHRISTIANITY; CATHOLIC; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOLARLY; VISIONARY; MIRACLES.

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