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The Quest of the Historical Jesus

by Schweitzer Albert

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The Quest of the Historical Jesus

A Critical Study of its Progress From Reimarus to Wrede

By

Albert Schweitzer

Privatdocent in New Testament Studies in the University of Strassburg

Translated By

W. Montgomery, B.A., B.D.

With a Preface by

F. C. Burkitt, M.A., D.D.

Norrisian Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge

Second English Edition

London

Adam and Charles Black

1911


Contents

  • Preface
  • I. The Problem
  • II. Hermann Samuel Reimarus
  • III. The Lives Of Jesus Of The Earlier Rationalism
  • IV. The Earliest Fictitious Lives Of Jesus
  • V. Fully Developed Rationalism—Paulus
  • VI. The Last Phase Of Rationalism—Hase And Schleiermacher
  • VII. David Friedrich Strauss—The Man And His Fate
  • VIII. Strauss's First “Life Of Jesus”
  • IX. Strauss's Opponents And
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Supporters
  • X. The Marcan Hypothesis
  • XI. Bruno Bauer. The First Sceptical Life Of Jesus
  • XII. Further Imaginative Lives Of Jesus
  • XIII. Renan
  • XIV. The “Liberal” Lives Of Jesus
  • XV. The Eschatological Question
  • XVI. The Struggle Against Eschatology
  • XVII. Questions Regarding The Aramaic Language, Rabbinic Parallels, And Buddhistic Influence
  • XVIII. The Position Of The Subject At The Close Of The Nineteenth Century
  • XIX. Thoroughgoing Scepticism And Thoroughgoing Eschatology
  • XX. Results
  • Index Of Authors And Works
  • Footnotes