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 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 [Cover Art] _First Edition published March 1910_ PREFACE _The book here translated is offered to the English‐speaking public in the belief that it sets before them, as no other book has ever done, the history of the struggle which the best‐equipped intellects of the modern world have gone through in endeavouring to realise for themselves the historical personality of our Lord._ _Every one nowadays is aware that traditional Christian doctrine about Jesus Christ is encompassed with difficulties, and that many of the statements in the Gospels appear incredible in the light of modern views of history and nature. But when the alternative of __“__Jesus or Christ__”__ is put forward, as it has been in a recent publication, or when we are bidden to choose between the Jesus of history and the Christ of dogma, few except professed students know what a protean and kaleidoscopic figure the __“__Jesus of history__”__ is. Like the Christ in the Apocryphal Acts of John, He has appeared in different forms to different minds. __“__We know Him right well,__”__ says Professor Weinel._(_1_)_ What a claim!_