The Quest of the Historical Jesus

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