This sublime conception, with all that goes with it, resulted in the retreating into obscurity of the Israelite mystery of man as an independent partner of God. (religion-online.org)
The axiom of Feuerbach's criticism of religion is that anthropology is the mystery of Christian theology: «Man is the God of Christianity, Anthropology the mystery of (religion-online.org)
Let it be said here and now, however, that we need not conclude that the very sciences which are forcing us more and more to abandon as invalid our traditional understanding of the nature and destiny of man, have thereby solved the riddle of life and of the mystery of man. (religion-online.org)