Ferdinand Christian Baur

“Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.”

“The opposition between the two parties, the Petrine and the Pauline, is the main key to the history of the apostolic and post-apostolic age.”

“The main question, with which everything is connected... is the question of the relationship of Pauline Christianity to the Christianity of the Twelve.”

“What is a dogma, if not a religious idea, expressed in a logical form, and fixed in this form?”

“The history of the Church is the reconciliation of the Jewish and Gentile Christian parties.”