Abstract
As a history-of-religions question, the birth of Christianity concerns first of all the theories about the origins of religions. The A. discusses three such theories: (1) theories of fulfillment claiming that the origin of Christianity inaugurated the birth of a new era (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Gottfried Herder); (2) the theory of original fraud claiming that Christianity was based on lies by corrupt disciples of Jesus (Hermann Samuel Reimarus); and (3) the theory of original betrayal, claiming that the early disciples of Jesus at once exchanged the master's radical message for accomodation to the corrupt status quo (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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