Besides a clever and consistently executed play on historical perception, it's a demonstration of power by an artist claiming the job of curator as his own. (artslant.com)
The historical - critical perspective expressed a scholarly mission of correcting historical perceptions and thereby of purifying the Christian faith. (religion-online.org)
In spite of all its progress in historical perception, it really remained more foreign to him than was the rationalism of the 18th or early 19th century, which was drawn close to him by virtue of its enthusiastic faith in the advancing moral progress of mankind [from the translation by Henry Clark, Ethical Mysticism, pp. 198 f.]. (religion-online.org)