{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 61/1912-01-25/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now is not this all very extraordinary? According to the investigations of our period, when we allude to Jesus of Nazareth, we must speak of a Deity; but this same period and same line of research admits of no reality in this God or purely Spiritual Being. How, then, does present-day science regard The Christ? He is looked upon as a visionary creation, a mere ideal concept which insinuated itself into the history of mankind, and was called into being by a folk fantasy born of mental impulse. According to the latest investigations in this field, The Christ is to be regarded not as a reality, but as a kind of imaginary god. To put it plainly, we would say:—Modern scientific research is brought face to face with something for which it has absolutely no use; for what can it do with a God in Whom it has no faith? External science has merely proved that the Bible records speak of a Deity, but it knows of naught else to do with this Deity, than to ascribe to Him a place in the category of visionary concepts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Christ and the 20th Century","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-01-25","location":null,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/61/1912-01-25/p024","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Walter F. 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Ja, wenn man es trocken sagen wollte, so könnte man sagen: Da bringt es die historische Forschung zu etwas, was sie so recht nicht brauchen kann, denn was sollte die gegenwärtige Forschung mit einem Gotte anfangen, an den sie so recht nicht glauben kann? — Sie hat nur den Beweis, daß die biblischen Dokumente von einem Gotte sprechen, kann aber damit nichts anfangen, als ihn in die Reihe der Dichtungen zu setzen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/61/1912-01-25/p011"}],"english":["GA 61/1912-01-25/p024"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":178,"en_words":187,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 61/1912-01-25/p011"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.26,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10270,"original_word_count":8148,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Walter F. 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