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 xiv
... taken for granted , it was able , by various harmonizing devices , to comprehend every statement about Jesus in all four Gospels and every other part of the Bible thought to refer to him . Then , since there was no suspicion of any ...
... taken for granted , it was able , by various harmonizing devices , to comprehend every statement about Jesus in all four Gospels and every other part of the Bible thought to refer to him . Then , since there was no suspicion of any ...
Page xviii
... taken into account : ' the historian simply must not be an apologist ' . The mediating theologian , however , by the very nature of his enter- prise , is bound sooner or later to have to say in effect : although purely historical ...
... taken into account : ' the historian simply must not be an apologist ' . The mediating theologian , however , by the very nature of his enter- prise , is bound sooner or later to have to say in effect : although purely historical ...
Page xxi
... taken in another justly influential book , published five years earlier , The Messianic Secret in the Gospels by William [ sic ] Wrede of Breslau . Wrede carried the liberal point of view to its logical conclusion by denying that Jesus ...
... taken in another justly influential book , published five years earlier , The Messianic Secret in the Gospels by William [ sic ] Wrede of Breslau . Wrede carried the liberal point of view to its logical conclusion by denying that Jesus ...
Page xxvii
... taken over simply and easily by each succeeding generation of men . That , however , he did not do , and there is no doubt a reason for it . We have , therefore , to reconcile ourselves to the fact that his religion of love appeared as ...
... taken over simply and easily by each succeeding generation of men . That , however , he did not do , and there is no doubt a reason for it . We have , therefore , to reconcile ourselves to the fact that his religion of love appeared as ...
Page xxxiv
... taken to be most certain may prove a stimulus . I hope that it will be a stimulus which will not cause offence , but lead to new and independent thought and research . Albert Schweitzer Strassburg , Thomasstift , 22 February 1906 ...
... taken to be most certain may prove a stimulus . I hope that it will be a stimulus which will not cause offence , but lead to new and independent thought and research . Albert Schweitzer Strassburg , Thomasstift , 22 February 1906 ...
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.