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, B.A., B.D.

With a Preface by

F. C. Burkitt, M.A., D.D.

Norrisian Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge

Second English Edition

London

Adam and Charles Black

1911

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
• ...