A common feature of many of these works was the rejection of miracles as inconsistent with the modern worldview. Assuming miracles and such dogmas as the resurrection to be irreconcilable with a modern sensibility, theologians such as Albrecht Ritschl and Adolf von Harnack found the summit of meaning in the New Testament to be Jesus’s preaching of the kingdom, particularly the moral teachings of Jesus at the Sermon on the Mount. As a consequence, a whole school of “liberal Protestant” theology developed that sought to reinterpret the gospel for the modern world without reference to
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