Albert Kalthoff

Albert Kalthoff (5 March 1850, Barmen – 11 May 1906, Bremen) was a German Protestant theologian, who along with Emil Felden (1874–1959), Oscar Mauritz (1867–1959), Moritz Schwalb (1833–1916) and Friedrich Steudel (1866–1939) formed a group in Bremen, named the Deutscher Monistenbund (German Monists League), who no longer believed in Jesus as a historical figure.

Quotes

• A Son of God, Lord of the World, born of a virgin, and rising again after death, and the son of a small builder with revolutionary notions, are two totally different beings. If one was the historical Jesus, the other certainly was not. The real question of the historicity of Jesus is not merely whether there ever was a Jesus among the numerous claimants of a Messiahship in Judea, but whether we are to recognise the historical character of this Jesus in the Gospels, and whether he is to be regarded as the founder of Christianity.[4]
  • Kalthoff, Albert (1907). "Was There An Historical Jesus?". The Rise of Christianity. Translated by Joseph McCabe. London: Watts. p. 28. 1904: "Was There An Historical Jesus?", How Christianity arose: New contributions to the Christ-problem

See also

• Christ myth theory
• Historical Jesus