Tübingen School

proper noun

A rationalistic school of theologians founded by Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), which explained the origin of the Catholic Church as due to the gradual fusion of an antagonistic Judaistic and gentile party, the various stages of fusion being capable of being traced in the extant documents.

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proper nounthe Tübingen School
  1. historicalChristianityA rationalistic school of theologians founded by Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), which explained the origin of the Catholic Church as due to the gradual fusion of an antagonistic Judaistic and gentile party, the various stages of fusion being capable of being traced in the extant documents.
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