The Quest of the Historical JesusA monument in historical Jesus studies In this revised translation and retrieval of the full text of the revised German edition, Schweitzer describes and critiques eighteenth and nineteenth century attempts at retrieving the "Jesus of history" and stands at the crossroads of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to bring closure to the former, and to open the latter for New Testament scholarship. Schweitzer saw the problems of historiography, theology, and politics in the ways the issues were formulated - and the answers proposed - and refocused attention on Jesus' "eschatology" in a way abandoned by his predecessors. Issues of the messianic secret, the nature of the kingdom of God, and Jesus' mission are addressed. Because of the new invigorated study of Jesus in his first-century context, informed readers will desire Schweitzer as a reference point for the mistakes of the past and the possibilitites of new directions. |
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Page vii
... influence on New Testament scholarship . He was a precocious genius . By the age of thirty he had written two books on the historical Jesus which decisively shaped twentieth - century scholarship . The Mystery of the Kingdom of God ...
... influence on New Testament scholarship . He was a precocious genius . By the age of thirty he had written two books on the historical Jesus which decisively shaped twentieth - century scholarship . The Mystery of the Kingdom of God ...
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... influence on subsequent Jesus scholarship was immense . Though few scholars accepted the more specific details of ... influential , contributing to a relative lack of scholarly inter- est in the historical Jesus for a major portion of ...
... influence on subsequent Jesus scholarship was immense . Though few scholars accepted the more specific details of ... influential , contributing to a relative lack of scholarly inter- est in the historical Jesus for a major portion of ...
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... influential , and an understanding of it is indispensable to an understanding of subsequent New Testament study , especially in Germany . It is true that those who have worked with the concept of myth have often done so in a sense very ...
... influential , and an understanding of it is indispensable to an understanding of subsequent New Testament study , especially in Germany . It is true that those who have worked with the concept of myth have often done so in a sense very ...
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... influence than was formerly supposed . While ' demythologization ' may still be found a useful concept , the close association of it with a Heideggerian form of existentialism has proved less acceptable . Recent developments might lead ...
... influence than was formerly supposed . While ' demythologization ' may still be found a useful concept , the close association of it with a Heideggerian form of existentialism has proved less acceptable . Recent developments might lead ...
Page xxxvi
... influence of Christian Hermann Weisse's Die Evangelienfrage ( 1856 ) and Heinrich Julius Holtzmann's Die Synoptische Evangelien ( 1863 ) , instead of Matthew , as held by Ferdinand Christian Baur ( 1792-1860 ) and the Tübingen school ...
... influence of Christian Hermann Weisse's Die Evangelienfrage ( 1856 ) and Heinrich Julius Holtzmann's Die Synoptische Evangelien ( 1863 ) , instead of Matthew , as held by Ferdinand Christian Baur ( 1792-1860 ) and the Tübingen school ...
Contents
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David Friedrich Strauss The Man and his Fate | 63 |
Strausss First Life of Jesus | 72 |
The Eschatological Question | 188 |
Against Eschatology | 200 |
Aramaic Rabbinic Buddhist | 219 |
The Quest of the Historical Jesus at the End of the Nineteenth Century | 262 |
The Criticism of the Modern Historical View by Wrede and Thoroughgoing Eschatology | 294 |
Description and Criticism of Wredes Hypothesis | 301 |
The Solution of Thoroughgoing Eschatology | 313 |
The Most Recent Disputing of the Historicity of Jesus | 353 |
Strausss Opponents and Supporters | 89 |
The Markan Hypothesis | 108 |
Bruno Bauer | 122 |
Further Imaginative Lives of Jesus | 141 |
Renan | 156 |
The Liberal Lives of Jesus | 166 |
The Debate about the Historicity of Jesus | 389 |
1907 to 1912 | 435 |
Conclusion | 476 |
Notes | 486 |
Index | 553 |
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Page 353 - And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
Page xl - But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom.
Page ix - He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: "Follow thou me!
Page xlv - For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Page 341 - drink no more of the fruit of the vine ;' which was not blood, but wine : and therefore it followeth that there is no transubstantiation.
Page 250 - Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Page 359 - Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ...
Page 359 - He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those...
Page 478 - The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give His work its final consecration, never had any existence.