The quest of the historical Jesus / Albert Schweitzer ; translated by W. Montgomery ; preface by F. C. Burkitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Von Reimarus zu Wrede. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Biography--History and criticism.

Jesus Christ.

Biography.

Jesus Christ--Historicity.

Historicity of Jesus Christ.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[Dover edition].

Place of Publication:

Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [2005]

Language Note:

Translated from: Von Reimarus zu Wrede.

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.

While Schweitzer's own proposals no longer command endorsement, his lasting contribution-comprising the bulk of the book-is the critique of his predecessors. By examining the works of more than 50 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors and scholars, he endeavored to show the fanciful nature of their historical reconstructions of Jesus.

Schweitzer's work has proved to be the touchstone for all subsequent quests for the "Jesus of history." It contributed to the remarkable resurgence in Jesus studies in the latter part of the twentieth century and culminated in the much publicized and highly controversial findings of the Jesus Seminar. An influential and detailed study by the 1953 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Quest of the Historical Jesus is essential reading for biblical scholars, theologians, pastors, and serious Christians.

Contents:

I The Problem 1

II Hermann Samuel Reimarus 13

III The Lives of Jesus of the Earlier Rationalism 27

IV The Earliest Fictitious Lives of Jesus 38

V Fully Developed Rationalism-Paulus 48

VI The Last Phase of Rationalism-Hase and Schleiermacher 58

VII David Friedrich Strauss-The Man and his Fate 68

VIII Strauss's first Life of Jesus 78

IX Strauss's Opponents and Supporters 97

X The Marcan Hypothesis 121

XI Bruno Bauer 137

XII Further Imaginative Lives of Jesus 161

XIII Renan 180

XIV The "Liberal" Lives of Jesus 193

XV The Eschatological Question 222

XVI The Struggle against Eschatology 241

XVII Questions regarding the Aramaic Language, Rabbinic Parallels, and Buddhistic Influence 269

XVIII The Position of the Subject at the Close of the Nineteenth Century 293

XIX Thoroughgoing Scepticism and thoroughgoing Eschatology 328

XX Results 396.

Notes:

"This Dover edition, first published in 2005, is an unabridged republication of the second English edition of the work originally published in 1911 by Adam and Charles Black, London, under the title 'The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede'."

Publisher's advertisements: [15] p. at end.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0486440273 :

9780486440279

OCLC:

57068361