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. |
Contents
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The Earliest Imaginative Lives of Jesus | 35 |
Fully Developed Rationalism Paulus | 45 |
The Last Phase of Rationalism Hase and Schleiermacher | 54 |
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 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.