Jesus, Superhuman or Human, to Nock, 1933

"We are sometimes told that the unique attractiveness of the central figure of Christianity as presented in the Synoptic Gospels was a primary factor in the success of Christianity. I believe this idea to be a product of nineteenth century idealism and humanitarianism. In early Christian literature those aspects of the Gospel picture which are not most prominent in homiletic writing are not stressed, and all the emphasis is on the superhuman qualities of Jesus, as foreshadowed by prophecy and shown by miracle and resurrection and teaching, and not on his winning humanity."

-- Conversion, Arthur Darby Nock, 1933, p. 210 [cited in Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety. E. R. Dodds, 1965, p. 119, n. 2].