The quest of the historical Jesus
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About This Book
s/t: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede Groundbreaking study that established the reputation of the famed theologian traces the search for the historical person of Jesus. Schweitzer examines works of more than 50 18th- & 19th-century authors & scholars & concludes that many of the earlier historical reconstructions of Christ were largely fantasies. This set the criterion for all subsequent studies. "The best introduction to its subject, scholarly & urbane, a fine example of critical exposition, a mystery story on the highest possible level, enlivened by Dr Schweitzer's wit...
Chapters (23)
- 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
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