“Christ, with whom the multitude could not deal other than by making him into God Himself, thus enabling itself to venerate as God him whom they had loathed as man.”

— Constantin Brunner

Source: Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921), p. 113

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German philosopher 1862–1937

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