asked him no petty question of politics or war,

[bella]

Napoleon, meeting the German scholar Wieland in 1808, asked him no petty question of politics or war, but did he believe in the historicity of Christ?이 해석이 안됩니다.  고수님들 도와주세요.

DID Christ exist? Is the life story of the founder of Christianity the product of human sorrow; imagination, and hope—a myth comparable to the legends of Krishna, Osiris, Attis, Adonis, Dionysus, and Mithras? Early in the eighteenth century the circle of Bolingbroke, shocking even Voltaire, privately discussed the possibility that Jesus had never lived. Vol-ney propounded the same doubt in his Ruins of Empire in 1791. Napoleon, meeting the German scholar Wieland in 1808, asked him no petty question of politics or war, but did he believe in the historicity of Christ?

One of the most far-reaching activities of the modern mind has been the "Higher Criticism" of the Bible—the mounting attack upon its authenticity and veracity, countered by the heroic attempt to save the historical foundations of Christian faith; the results may in time prove as revolutionary as Christianity itself.

[Wizard]

나폴레옹은 1808년에 독일의 학자 Weiland를 만난 자리에서 정치나 전쟁문제 같은 사소한 질문은 하지않고 그가 예수 그리스도의 역사성을 믿는가에 대해서 질문했다.

[bella]

wizard님 친절한 설명 감사드립니다.