The Quest of the Historical Jesus

by Albert Schweitzer, W. Montgomery (Translator), F. C. Burkitt (Foreword by)

Overview

The Bible teaches us of Jesus the Christ of Christian religious faith, but who was Jesus the man? Albert Schweitzer's "The Quest of the Historical Jesus" is a landmark study of the man named Jesus. While sometimes at odds with theologians, Schweitzer's controversial findings set the academic standard for all studies of Jesus that followed. Originally published in German, this is a photographic reproduction of the 1910 first English language edition. Index.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613422076
Publisher:	Cornerstone Book Publishers
Publication date:	07/15/2014
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. While still a young man he demonstrated extraordinary abilities in a wide range of pursuits, including science, theology, and music. In 1908 he published his magisterial study of the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach. He studied medicine from 1905 to 1913 at the University of Strasbourg, then founded a hospital in French Equatorial Africa, where he spent most of the remainder of his life. Schweitzer used his Nobel Prize stipend to expand the hospital and to build a leper colony. His bookThe Primeval Forest is also available from Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

	Foreword, 1998	ix
	Preface	xv
I	The Problem	1
II	Hermann Samuel Reimarus	13
III	The Lives of Jesus of the Earlier Rationalism	27
IV	The Earliest Fictitious Lives of Jesus	38
V	Fully Developed Rationalism--Paulus	48
VI	The Last Phase of Rationalism--Hase and Schleiermacher	58
VII	David Friedrich Strauss--The Man and His Fate	68
VIII	Strauss's First "Life of Jesus"	78
IX	Strauss's Opponents and Supporters	96
X	The Marcan Hypothesis	121
XI	Bruno Bauer	137
XII	Further Imaginative Lives of Jesus	161
XIII	Renan	180
XIV	The "Liberal" Lives of Jesus	193
XV	The Eschatological Question	223
XVI	The Struggle against Eschatology	242
XVII	Questions Regarding the Aramaic Language, Rabbinic Parallels, and Buddhistic Influence	270
XVIII	The Position of the Subject at the Close of the Nineteenth Century	294
XIX	Thoroughgoing Scepticism and Thoroughgoing Eschatology	330
XX	Results	398
	Index of Authors and Works, Including Reference to English Translations	405