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Ernest Renan, (born Feb. 28, 1823, Tréguier, Fr.—died Oct. 2, 1892, Paris), French philosopher, historian, and scholar of religion, a leader of the school of critical philosophy in France.
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...claimed (falsely) to be in touch with and have influence over the Sudanese Mahdī, a messianic bearer of justice and equality expected by some Muslims in the last days. He also engaged Ernest Renan, the French historian and philosopher, in a famous debate concerning the position of Islām regarding science. He tried unsuccessfully to persuade the British government to use him as...
...on children, on women, on love, on sports, as in Robert Louis Stevenson’s collection Virginibus Puerisque (1881), or Willa Cather’s pleasant reflections in Not Under Forty (1936). Ernest Renan (1823–92), one of the most accomplished French masters of the essay, found relief from his philosophical and historical studies in his half-ironical considerations on love, and...
...opposed Petrine (Peter) and Pauline (Paul) antithesis in the primitive church, followed in the 2nd century by a synthesis that is reflected in most of the New Testament writings. In France, Ernest Renan’s (1823–92) works on early Christianity were helpful philological and historical studies; the most popular volume, his Vie de Jésus (1863), was the least valuable. In...
...positive (1830–42; The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte) fathered this new school of thought, called positivism, which became almost a new religion. Ernest Renan adapted this scientific approach to the study of religion itself, most notably in his Vie de Jésus (1863; Life of Jesus), which...
Strauss’s thought as it affected religion was continued by the philosophical historian Ernest Renan (1823–92) and as it affected philosophy by the humanist Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–72) of the Hegelian left. Renan’s Vie de Jésus (1863; Life of Jesus) did for France what Strauss’s book had done for Germany, though the two differed greatly in character....
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