The Quest of the Historical Jesus

The Quest of the Historical Jesus

The Quest of the Historical Jesus - A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to WredeThe...
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Author: Schweitzer, Albert,1875-1965
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The Quest of the Historical Jesus

The Quest of the Historical Jesus

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The Quest of the Historical Jesus

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Author: Schweitzer, Albert,1875-1965
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Quest of the Historical Jesus - A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede

The book here translated is offered to the English-speaking public in the belief that it sets before them, as no other book has ever done, the history of the struggle which the best-equipped intellects of the modern world have gone through in endeavouring to realise for themselves the historical personality of our Lord. Every one nowadays is aware that traditional Christian doctrine about Jesus Christ is encompassed with difficulties, and that many of the statements in the Gospels appear incredible in the light of modern views of history and nature. But when the alternative of Jesus or Christis put forward, as it has been in a recent publication, or when we are bidden to choose between the Jesus of history and the Christ of dogma, few except professed students know what a protean and kaleidoscopic figure the Jesus of history is. Like the Christ in the Apocryphal Acts of John, He has appeared in different forms to different minds. We know Him right well, says Professor Weinel.1What a claim! Among the many bold paradoxes enunciated in this history of the Quest, there is one that meets us at the outset, about which a few words may be said here, if only to encourage those to persevere to the end who might otherwise be repelled halfwaythe paradox that the greatest attempts to write a Life of Jesus have been written with hate.2 It is in full accordance with this faith that Dr. Schweitzer gives, in paragraph after paragraph, the undiluted expression of the views of men who agree only in their unflinching desire to attain historical truth. We are not accustomed to be so ruthless in England. We sometimes tend to forget that the Gospel has moved the world, and we think our faith and devotion to it so tender and delicate a thing that it will break, if it be not handled with the utmost circumspection. So we become dominated [pg vi]by phrases and afraid of them. Dr. Schweitzer is not afraid of phrases, if only they have been beaten out by real contact with facts. And those who read to the end will see that the crude sarcasm of Reimarus and the unflinching scepticism of Bruno Bauer are not introduced merely to shock and by way of contrast. Each in his own way made a real contribution to our understanding of the greatest historical problem in the history of our race. We see now that the object of attack was not the historical Jesus after all, but a temporary idea of Him, inadequate because it did not truly represent Him or the world in which He lived. And by hearing the writers' characteristic phrases, uncompromising as they may be, by looking at things for a moment from their own point of view, different as it may be from ours, we are able to be more just, not only to these men of a past age, but also to the great Problem that occupied them, as it also occupies us. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45422
Author: Schweitzer, Albert
Release Date: Apr 16, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Montgomery, W. (William), 1871-1930

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