Albert Schweitzer Biography and Works.

Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875-September 4, 1965) was an Allocation theologian, philosopher, organist, physician and a medical missionary.

Born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology as well as the traditional Christian view.

Schweitzer received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his philosophy of ‘Reverence for Life’. This philosophy was expressed in many ways, most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gavin, the then Lambaste. As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer, Joann Sebastian Bach. He influenced the Organ Reform Movement.

Schweitzer’s quest was to discover a universal ethical philosophy and make it directly available to all of humanity.

He established his reputation also as a New Testament scholar with other theological studies including ‘The Psychiatric Study of Jesus’ and his two studies of the apostle Paul, Paul and his Interpreters’ and ‘The Mysticism of Paul, the Apostle’.

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The publication of “The Quest for the Historical Jesus’ effectively put a stop for decades to work on the Historical Jesus as a sub-discipline of New Testament studies. This work resumed, however, with the development of the so-called Second Quest’.