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
With a Preface by F. C. Burkitt
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 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
Albert Schweitzer is celebrated around the world as a European pioneer of medical service in Africa, a groundbreaking philosopher and musical scholar, and a catalyst of environmental and peace activism. He is the author of "Out of My Life and Thought".