This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... AN INTRODUCTION BY TEE TRANSLATOR 1. An "Account of Schweitzer's Work and its Reception. The work which, is here translated was published in 1901 as the second part of a treatise entitled Das Abendmahl. The full title reads: The Lord's Supper m connection with the Life of Jesus and the History of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... AN INTRODUCTION BY TEE TRANSLATOR 1. An "Account of Schweitzer's Work and its Reception. The work which, is here translated was published in 1901 as the second part of a treatise entitled Das Abendmahl. The full title reads: The Lord's Supper m connection with the Life of Jesus and the History of Early Christianity. This second part was issued separately and bore also the following sub-title: Das Messianitdts und Leidensgeheimnis. Eine Skizze des Lebens Jesu. It implies no disparagement of Schweitzer's novel and important study of the Lord's Supper that this second part is here separated from the first and published by itself in English. This part is really independent. It has moreover a much broader scope and appeals to a far wider interest than does the treatise as a whole. There is reason to fear that, appearing as a part of a study of the Lord's Supper and under that title, it might be ignored by many of the persons who most would desire to read it. The scant attention accorded at first to Schweitzer's work in Germany may be ascribed in part to that very cause, and there appears to be no other reason to account for the fact that the "Sketch" has not yet been publicly noticed in England or America, so far as the translator is aware. It will not be denied, even by those who are least inclined to agree with the views of the Author, that this first work of the young Strassburg student did not deserve the oblivion which seemed to threaten it for some years after its appearance. It is manifest now that Schweitzer's theory, to say the least of it, must be reckoned with by every one who would seriously study the Gospels or the Life of Jesus. Obviously it was not the weakness of the book, but rather its strong originality, and in particular...
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