The Quest of the Historical Jesus: The First Complete Edition

by John Bowden, Albert Schweitzer (Editor)

Overview

A monument in historical Jesus studiesIn 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800632885
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	06/22/2001
Series:	Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was born in Alsace. He was Professor of Theology at the Theological Seminary of St. Thomas in Strasbourg. Schweitzer spent most of his life as a physician in Gabon, Africa, inthe 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

Editor's Note

Foreword to the Complete Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the Sixth Edition

The Quest of the Historical Jesus

The Problem

Hermann Samuel Reimarus

The Lives of Jesus of Earlier Rationalism

The Earliest Imaginative Lives of Jesus

Fully Developed Rationalism - Paulus

The Last Phase of Rationalism - Hase and Schleiermacher

David Friedrich Strauss - The Man and his Fate

Strauss's First 'Life of Jesus'

Strauss's Opponents and Supporters

The Markan Hypothesis

Bruno Bauer

Futher Imaginative Lives of Jesus

Renan

The 'Liberal' Lives of Jesus

The Eschatological Question

Against Eschatology

Aramaic, Rabbinic, Buddhist

The Quest of the Historical Jesus at the End of the Nineteenth Century

The Criticism of the Modern Historical View by Wrede and Thoroughgoing Eschatology

Descrption and Criticism of Wrede's Hypothesis

The Solution of Thoroughgoing Eschatology

The Most Recent Disputing of the Historicity of Jesus

The Debate about the Historicity of Jesus

1907 to 1912

Conclusion

Notes

Index of Names