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

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.