Schweitzer proposes to write a life of Jesus starting not at the beginning but in the middle, with the decision to suffer and die. Working closely through Mark and Matthew, he argues that Jesus’ preaching of the Kingdom, his secret of messiahship and his journey to Jerusalem make sense only within the urgent expectation of the end of the world.
The compact first statement of the thoroughgoing eschatology that reshaped New Testament scholarship, by the later Nobel Peace laureate. Download the free EPUB.