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The Quest of the Historical Jesus
LE SECRET HISTORIQUE DE LA VIE DE JESUS

A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede

By Albert Schweitzer
D. THEOL., D. PHIL., D. MED.


Publié en 1906

With a Preface by F. C. Burkitt, D.D.
First English Edition, 1910.
Published in Great Britain by A. & C. Black, Ltd.

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Preface
1. The Problem
1
2. Hermann Samuel Reimarus
13
3. The Lives of Jesus of the Earlier Rationalism
27
4. The Earliest Fictitious Lives of Jesus
38
5. Fully Developed Rationalism - Paulus
48
6. The Last Phase of Rationalism - Hase and Schleiermacher
58
7. David Friedrich Strauss - The Man and his Fate
68
8. Strauss's First "Life of Jesus"
78
9. Strauss's Opponents and Supporters
96
10. The Marcan Hypothesis
121
11. Bruno Bauer
137
12. Further Imaginative Lives of Jesus
161
13. Renan
180
14. The "Liberal" Lives of Jesus
193
15. The Eschatological Question
223
16. The Struggle against Eschatology
242
17. Questions regarding the Aramaic Language, Rabbinic Parallels, and Buddhistic Influence
270
18. The Position of the Subject at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
294
19. Thoroughgoing Scepticism and Thoroughgoing Eschatology
330
20. Results

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