Translated by Peter C. Hodgson and Robert F. Brown
- Makes a new generation of Baur scholarship available to English readers
- Demonstrates Baur's relevance to contemporary issues in New Testament studies and historical theology
- Focuses on the history of early Christianity
- Discusses Baur's relation to Strauss, Mohler, and Hegel
- Considers his historical and exegetical perspectives (Judaism and Hellenism, Gnosticism, New Testament introduction and theology, the Pauline epistles, the Synoptic Gospels, John, the critique of miracle, and the combination of absoluteness and relativity)