{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A further question calls for an answer: What was Christ's real intention? His purpose breathes through every page of the Gospels and we must seek to feel and experience it with all the earnestness at our command. Despite apparent contradictions in the Gospels each contains a core of facts and truths which were announced or proclaimed by Christ Jesus; but the core of each Gospel has its own particular atmosphere. I must remind you of what I said in reference to Richard Rothe, namely, that we must change our whole approach to the reading of the Gospels. We must read them in the spirit that breathes through them, become responsive to the atmosphere that pervades them. People who read the Gospels today invest them with their own preconceived picture of a generalized human ideal. The age of “enlightenment” envisaged Christ Jesus as an enlightened man. Protestant groups or sects have created an image of Jesus which depicts Him as a typical representative of nineteenth-century Protestantism. Ernst Haeckel even managed to depict Jesus as a thorough-going monist of his own brand. Now these are attitudes which mankind must learn to outgrow. It is important that we should really respond to the contents of the Gospels in the atmosphere and setting of their own time.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Christ's Cosmic Mission and the Transformation of Faith","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Es pulsiert das schon durch die Evangelien hindurch, was in dem Willen des Christus Jesus liegt, aber man muß es nur mit allem tiefen, tiefsten Ernste wirklich fühlen. Sie wissen, wir haben die vier Evangelien. Jedes dieser vier Evangelien enthält trotz allen scheinbaren Widersprüchen einen gewissen Grundstock von Tatsachen und Wahrheiten, die durch den Christus Jesus getan oder verkündet worden sind, aber es enthält jedes Evangelium, ich möchte sagen, eingegossen diesen Grundstock in eine ganz bestimmte Stimmung. Und da kommt wirklich das in Betracht, was ich Ihnen angeführt habe, als ich Sie auf Richard Rothe hinwies. Da kommt in Betracht, daß man die Evangelien anders lesen muß, als man das heute tut: daß man sie lesen muß mit jenem Hauche, der sie durchzieht, mit jener eigentümlichen Stimmung, die in ihnen waltet. Man liest allerdings die Evangelien heute so, daß man hineinträumt dasjenige, was man als so ein allgemeines menschliches Ideal ansieht. In der Zeit der Aufklärung hat man einen aufgeklärten Menschen in dem Christus Jesus gesehen; aus protestantenvereinlerischen Strömungen ist ein Jesus-Bild hervorgegangen, wo Jesus ein richtiger Protestanten-Vereinler des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts ist; Ernst Haeckel hat es sogar zustande gebracht, aus dem Jesus einen richtigen Monisten seiner Sorte zu machen. Das sind Dinge, über die die Menschheit wird hinauskommen müssen. Das, worum es sich handelt, ist, wirklich mit der Atmosphäre der Zeit richtig zu fühlen, was in den Evangelien gelegen ist. 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