The Quest of the Historical Jesus

by Schweitzer, Albert

• ISBN13: 9780800632885
• ISBN10: 0800632885
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

This groundbreaking work, which established the reputation of Albert Schweitzer as a theologian, traces the search for the historical figure of Jesus (apart from the Christ of faith) and establishes the author's own views.

Author Biography

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the son of a Lutheran pastor, was born in Alsace. He earned doctorates in both philosophy and theology, and later earned his medical degree. He was Professor of Theology at the Theological Seminary of St. Thomas in Strasbourg. He spent most of his life as a physician in Gabon, Africa, in the village of Lambarene; and in 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. He authored numerous works, including the renowned The Mystery of the Kingdom of God, The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, and Out of My Life and Thought

Table of Contents

An Appreciation of Albert Schweitzer	vii
Marcus J. Borg
Editor's Note	xi
John Bowden
Foreword to the Complete Edition	xiii
Dennis Nineham
Preface to the First Edition (1906)	xxxiii
Preface to the Second Edition (1913)	xxxiv
Preface to the Sixth Edition (1950)	xxxv
The Quest of the Historical Jesus
The Problem	3	(11)
Hermann Samuel Reimarus	14	(13)
The Lives of Jesus of Earlier Rationalism	27	(10)
The Earliest Imaginative Lives of Jesus	37	(10)
Fully Developed Rationalism-Paulus	47	(9)
The Last Phase Of Rationalism-Hase and Schleiermacher	56	(9)
David Friedrich Strauss-The Man and his Fate	65	(9)
Strauss's First `Life of Jesus'	74	(17)
Strauss's Opponents and Supporters	91	(19)
The Markan Hypothesis	110	(14)
Bruno Bauer	124	(19)
Further Imaginative Lives of Jesus	143	(15)
Renan	158	(10)
The `Liberal' Lives of Jesus	168	(22)
The Eschatological Question	190	(12)
Against Eschatology	202	(19)
Aramaic, Rabbinic, Buddhist	221	(43)
The Quest of the Historical Jesus at the End of the Nineteenth Century	264	(32)
The Criticism of the Modern Historical View by Wrede and Thoroughgoing Eschatology	296	(7)
Description and Criticism of Wrede's Hypothesis	303	(12)
The Solution of Thoroughgoing Eschatology	315	(40)
The Most Recent Disputing of the Historicity of Jesus	355	(36)
The Debate about the Historicity of Jesus	391	(46)
1907 to 1912	437	(41)
Conclusion	478	(10)
Notes	488	(67)
Index of Names	555