Albert Schweitzer's The Quest Of The Historical Jesus

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In 1906 Albert Schweitzer distributed his famous " The Quest of the
Historical Jesus" a book so expansive in its effect that its distribution dates now marks the finish of the old quest. Taking after the earlier work of Johannes Weiss, Schweitzer contended unequivocally that the best possible context for understanding Jesus was Jewish apocalyptic eschatology. In this specific situation, Jesus shows up not simply as a (liberal) social reformer and teacher of love, yet as a final days devotee who intensely trusted that his own sufferings would assume a crucial part in the apocalyptic result of this world.

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