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This book on the legacy of Albert Schweitzer contextualises this remarkable intellectualist, humanist, medicine-man, theologian and Nobel Prize winner. This collected work is aimed at specialists in the humanities, social sciences, education, and religious studies. The authors embrace philanthropic values to benefit Africa and the world at large. The publication engages with peers on the relevance of Schweitzer’s work for humanitarian values in Africa. The essays in the book stimulate further research in the various fields in which Schweitzer excelled. Its academic contribution is its focus on the post-colonial discourse in contemporary discussions both in South Africa and Africa at large. The book emphasises Schweitzer’s reverence for life philosophy and demonstrates how this impacts on moral values. However, the book also points to the possibility that Schweitzer’s reverence for life philosophy is embedded in a typically European appreciation of ‘mysticism’ that is not commensurate with African indigenous religious values. From an African academic perspective, the book advocates the view that Schweitzer’s concept of the reverence for life supports not only the Biblical notion of imago Dei but also the African humanist values of the preservation and protection of life, criticizing the exploitation of the environment by warring factions and large companies, especially in oil-producing African countries. It also argues that Schweitzer’s disposition on ethics was influenced by the Second World War, his sentiments against nuclear weapons and his resistance to the Enlightenment view of ‘civilisation’. With regard to Jesus studies the book elucidates values promoted by Schweitzer by following in Jesus’ steps and portraying Jesus’ message within a modern world view. Taken over from Schweitzer, the book argues that Jesus’ moral authority resides in his display of love and his interaction with the poor and marginalised. The book demonstrates Schweitzer’s understanding of Jesus as the one who sacrifices his own life to bring the Kingdom of God to realisation in this world. The book commends Schweitzer’s insight that we know Jesus through his toils on the one hand, and through our own experiences on the other. It is in a mixture between the two that the hermeneutical gap between then and now is bridged. It is precisely in bridging this gap that Schweitzer sees himself as an instrument of God’s healing. It defines Schweitzer as the embodiment of being a healer, educationalist and herald of the greening of Christianity. His philosophy on the reverence for life prepares a foundation for Christians to think ‘green’ about human life within a greater environment. He advocates aspects of education such as lifelong learning, holistic education and a problem-based approach to education. Finally, the book analyses both critically and appreciatively Albert Schweitzer’s contribution to the concepts of religious healing prevalent in African Christianity today.

The historical Jesus --- Ethical issues & debates --- Philosophy & theory of education --- promotion of peace --- albert schweitzer --- quest for historical jesus --- medical healing --- enlightenment --- injustice --- civilization --- ethical mysticism --- consumerism --- ethics --- african development --- religious healing --- reverence for life --- educational thought --- ecological crisis --- materialism --- “greening” of christianity --- post -colonialism --- african humanism --- ethical awareness --- new testament --- compassion --- indigenous people --- social relations --- african academic biblical interpretation --- colonisation --- environment --- moral imperialism --- gaia hypothesis --- non-violence --- responsible citizenship --- Africa --- Albert Schweitzer --- Ethics --- Historical Jesus --- Jesus --- Reverence for Life --- Schweitzer, Albert, --- Schweitzer, Albert, --- Schweitzer, Albert, --- Ethics. --- Philosophy. --- promotion of peace --- albert schweitzer --- quest for historical jesus --- medical healing --- enlightenment --- injustice --- civilization --- ethical mysticism --- consumerism --- ethics --- african development --- religious healing --- reverence for life --- educational thought --- ecological crisis --- materialism --- “greening” of christianity --- post -colonialism --- african humanism --- ethical awareness --- new testament --- compassion --- indigenous people --- social relations --- african academic biblical interpretation --- colonisation --- environment --- moral imperialism --- gaia hypothesis --- non-violence --- responsible citizenship --- Africa --- Albert Schweitzer --- Ethics --- Historical Jesus --- Jesus --- Reverence for Life

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This book on the legacy of Albert Schweitzer contextualises this remarkable intellectualist, humanist, medicine-man, theologian and Nobel Prize winner. This collected work is aimed at specialists in the humanities, social sciences, education, and religious studies. The authors embrace philanthropic values to benefit Africa and the world at large. The publication engages with peers on the relevance of Schweitzer’s work for humanitarian values in Africa. The essays in the book stimulate further research in the various fields in which Schweitzer excelled. Its academic contribution is its focus on the post-colonial discourse in contemporary discussions both in South Africa and Africa at large. The book emphasises Schweitzer’s reverence for life philosophy and demonstrates how this impacts on moral values. However, the book also points to the possibility that Schweitzer’s reverence for life philosophy is embedded in a typically European appreciation of ‘mysticism’ that is not commensurate with African indigenous religious values. From an African academic perspective, the book advocates the view that Schweitzer’s concept of the reverence for life supports not only the Biblical notion of imago Dei but also the African humanist values of the preservation and protection of life, criticizing the exploitation of the environment by warring factions and large companies, especially in oil-producing African countries. It also argues that Schweitzer’s disposition on ethics was influenced by the Second World War, his sentiments against nuclear weapons and his resistance to the Enlightenment view of ‘civilisation’. With regard to Jesus studies the book elucidates values promoted by Schweitzer by following in Jesus’ steps and portraying Jesus’ message within a modern world view. Taken over from Schweitzer, the book argues that Jesus’ moral authority resides in his display of love and his interaction with the poor and marginalised. The book demonstrates Schweitzer’s understanding of Jesus as the one who sacrifices his own life to bring the Kingdom of God to realisation in this world. The book commends Schweitzer’s insight that we know Jesus through his toils on the one hand, and through our own experiences on the other. It is in a mixture between the two that the hermeneutical gap between then and now is bridged. It is precisely in bridging this gap that Schweitzer sees himself as an instrument of God’s healing. It defines Schweitzer as the embodiment of being a healer, educationalist and herald of the greening of Christianity. His philosophy on the reverence for life prepares a foundation for Christians to think ‘green’ about human life within a greater environment. He advocates aspects of education such as lifelong learning, holistic education and a problem-based approach to education. Finally, the book analyses both critically and appreciatively Albert Schweitzer’s contribution to the concepts of religious healing prevalent in African Christianity today.

Schweitzer, Albert, --- Schweitzer, Albert, --- Schweitzer, Albert, --- Ethics. --- Philosophy. --- promotion of peace --- albert schweitzer --- quest for historical jesus --- medical healing --- enlightenment --- injustice --- civilization --- ethical mysticism --- consumerism --- ethics --- african development --- religious healing --- reverence for life --- educational thought --- ecological crisis --- materialism --- “greening” of christianity --- post -colonialism --- african humanism --- ethical awareness --- new testament --- compassion --- indigenous people --- social relations --- african academic biblical interpretation --- colonisation --- environment --- moral imperialism --- gaia hypothesis --- non-violence --- responsible citizenship --- Africa --- Albert Schweitzer --- Ethics --- Historical Jesus --- Jesus --- Reverence for Life

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Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. At odds with the transcendent claims of philosophy and--more significantly--theology, historicism came to be attacked by its critics for reducing human experience to a series of disconnected moments, each of which was the product of decidedly mundane, rather than sacred, origins. By the late nineteenth century and into the Weimar period, historicism was seen by many as a grinding force that corroded social values and was emblematic of modern society's gravest ills. Resisting History examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four major Jewish thinkers. David Myers situates these thinkers in proximity to leading Protestant thinkers of the time, but argues that German Jews and Christians shared a complex cultural and discursive world best understood in terms of exchange and adaptation rather than influence.After examining the growing dominance of the new historicist thinking in the nineteenth century, the book analyzes the critical responses of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer. For this fascinating and diverse quartet of thinkers, historicism posed a stark challenge to the ongoing vitality of Judaism in the modern world. And yet, as they set out to dilute or eliminate its destructive tendencies, these thinkers often made recourse to the very tools and methods of historicism. In doing so, they demonstrated the utter inescapability of historicism in modern culture, whether approached from a Christian or Jewish perspective.

Historicism --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Judaism --- History --- Historiography --- Breuer, Isaac, --- Cohen, Hermann, --- Rosenzweig, Franz, --- Strauss, Leo. --- History. --- Historiography. --- Agudat Yisrael. --- Balfour Declaration. --- Benjamin, Walter. --- Breuer, Salomon. --- Cassirer, Ernst. --- Conservative Revolution. --- Davos conference. --- Denominationalism. --- Dilthey, Wilhelm. --- Ehrenfreund, Jacques. --- Enlightenment. --- Erets Yisrael. --- Fischer, Kuno. --- Frankfurt am Main. --- Funkenstein, Amos. --- Geiger, Abraham. --- Geisteswissenschaft. --- Guttmann, Julius. --- Hegelianism. --- Heidegger, Martin. --- Jewish nation. --- Jewishness. --- Kassel. --- Kellerman, Benzion. --- Kierkegaard, Søren. --- Kulturprotestantismus. --- Lazarus, Moritz. --- Luther, Martin. --- Marr, Wilhelm. --- Meinecke, Friedrich. --- Naturwissenschaft. --- Neue Kusari. --- Nordau, Max. --- Otto, Rudolf. --- Rabbinic Judaism. --- Revelation. --- Rosenheim, Jacob. --- Scholem, Gershom. --- Uganda proposal. --- anti-historicism. --- assimilation. --- biblical prophets. --- communitarianism. --- conversion to Christianity. --- cultural bifocality. --- ecclesiastical history. --- historical Jesus movement. --- historicism. --- philosophy. --- positivism. --- post-structuralism. --- systematic theology.

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The monograph Judging Q and Saving Jesus is characterised by careful textual analysis, showing a piercing critical eye in its impressive engagement with the secondary literature, and sharp and insightful critique. The target audience are specialists in the field of research on the Sayings Source Q (the hypothetical source of certain sayings of Jesus common to Matthew and Luke), historical Jesus, and early Christian theology. The book takes the stance that the hypothetical document Q can be reconstructed with sufficient precision and that this enables biblical scholars to study with confidence its genre and its thematic and ideological profile. The genre issue is central to the book overall structure and the alternative proposals are discussed at length and with sophistication. The author’s inference is that Q’s macrogenre is sapiential with occasional insertions of apocalyptic microstructures and motifs. This finding embodies progress in Historical Jesus studies.

Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism) --- Logia source (Synoptics criticism) --- Q document (Synoptics criticism) --- Sayings source (Synoptics criticism) --- Synoptic problem --- Two source hypothesis (Synoptics criticism) --- Theology --- apocalyptic --- do not judge --- documentary status --- eschatological --- historical jesus --- judgment --- judgement --- new testament --- apokaliptiese --- moenie oordeel --- eskatologiese --- historiese jesus --- oordeel --- new quest --- old quest --- psychostasia --- Logia --- Son of man --- Wisdom literature --- Jesus Christ --- Words. --- Christ --- Cristo --- Jezus Chrystus --- Jesus Cristo --- Jesus, --- Christ, Jesus --- Yeh-su --- Masīḥ --- Khristos --- Gesù --- Christo --- Yeshua --- Chrystus --- Gesú Cristo --- Ježíš --- Isa, --- Nabi Isa --- Isa Al-Masih --- Al-Masih, Isa --- Masih, Isa Al --- -Jesus, --- Jesucristo --- Yesu --- Yeh-su Chi-tu --- Iēsous --- Iēsous Christos --- Iēsous, --- Kʻristos --- Hisus Kʻristos --- Christos --- Jesuo --- Yeshuʻa ben Yosef --- Yeshua ben Yoseph --- Iisus --- Iisus Khristos --- Jeschua ben Joseph --- Ieso Kriʻste --- Yesus --- Kristus --- ישו --- ישו הנוצרי --- ישו הנצרי --- ישוע --- ישוע בן יוסף --- المسيح --- مسيح --- يسوع المسيح --- 耶稣 --- 耶稣基督 --- 예수그리스도 --- Jíizis --- Yéshoua --- Iėsu̇s --- Khrist Iėsu̇s --- ‏عيسىٰ‏

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The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized experts offer new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed new light on the Jesus of history, including pagan prayers and private inscriptions, miracle tales and martyrdoms, parables and fables, divorce decrees and imperial propaganda. The translated materials--from Christian, Coptic, and Jewish as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian texts--extend beyond single phrases to encompass the full context, thus allowing readers to locate Jesus in a broader cultural setting than is usually made available. This book demonstrates that only by knowing the world in which Jesus lived and taught can we fully understand him, his message, and the spread of the Gospel. Gathering in one place material that was previously available only in disparate sources, this formidable book provides innovative insight into matters no less grand than first-century Jewish and Gentile life, the composition of the Gospels, and Jesus himself.

Jesus Christ --- Divinity. --- Historicity. --- Resurrection. --- 2 Maccabees. --- Amy-Jill Levine. --- Anointing. --- Apuleius. --- Asclepius. --- Bible. --- Bibliography. --- Book of Deuteronomy. --- Book of Leviticus. --- Books of Kings. --- Books of Samuel. --- Burial. --- Caiaphas. --- Christian. --- Christianity and Judaism. --- Christianity. --- Christology. --- Crucifixion of Jesus. --- Dead Sea Scrolls. --- Deity. --- Dionysus. --- Dowry. --- Early Christianity. --- Elijah. --- Ephesus. --- Essenes. --- Eucharist. --- Exegesis. --- Ezekiel. --- Galilean. --- Gentile. --- God. --- Haggadah. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hebrew language. --- Hebrews. --- Hellenistic period. --- Herod the Great. --- Historical Jesus. --- Imperial cult (ancient Rome). --- Isaiah 53. --- Israelites. --- Jewish Christian. --- Jewish literature. --- Jews. --- John the Baptist. --- Judaism. --- Judea (Roman province). --- Judea. --- Land of Israel. --- Life of Apollonius of Tyana. --- Literature. --- Lord's Prayer. --- Martyr. --- Meal. --- Melchizedek. --- Messiah. --- Midrash. --- Mishnah. --- Mithraism. --- Mithras Liturgy. --- Narrative. --- New Testament. --- Old Testament. --- Parable. --- Passover Seder. --- Passover. --- Persecution. --- Pharisees. --- Philosopher. --- Philostratus. --- Piety. --- Pontius Pilate. --- Psalms. --- Pseudepigrapha. --- Qumran. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Religion. --- Religious text. --- Righteousness. --- Rite. --- Ritual purification. --- Roman Empire. --- Septuagint. --- Sermon. --- Suetonius. --- Synoptic Gospels. --- Talmud. --- Tanakh. --- Targum. --- Teacher of Righteousness. --- Temple Mount. --- Temple in Jerusalem. --- Theology. --- Torah. --- Trajan. --- Turnus. --- Writing. --- Zechariah (Hebrew prophet).