Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

Bruno Bauer (September 6 1809 – April 13 1882) was a German philosopher and historian. Hegel Bauer was a radical Rationalist in philosophy politics and Biblical criticism. Starting in 1840 he began a series of works arguing that Jesus was a 2nd-century fusion of Jewish Greek and Roman theology.