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Published to commemorate Albert Schweitzer's only visit to the
United States 60 years ago, this anniversary edition of his
autobiography gives 21st-century readers a unique and authoritative
account of the man John F. Kennedy called "one of the transcendent
moral influences of our century."
Schweitzer is celebrated around the world as a European pioneer
of medical service in Africa, a groundbreaking philosopher and
musical scholar, and a catalyst of environmental and peace
activism. Yet people most revere Schweitzer for his dedication to
serving others and his profound and influential ethic of reverence
for life. For Schweitzer, reverence for life was not a theory or a
philosophy but a discovery--a recognition that the capacity to
experience and act on a reverence for all life is a fundamental
part of human nature, a characteristic that sets human beings apart
from the rest of the natural world.
This anniversary edition coincides with several high profile
celebrations of his 1949 visit, as well as the release of a new
feature film starring Jeroen Krabbe and Barbara Hershey. In
addition to a foreword by Nobel Laureate and former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter, this edition features a new foreword by Lachlan
Forrow, president of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.
In this groundbreaking work that made his reputation as a
theologian, Albert Schweitzer traces the search for the historical
person of Jesus (apart from the Christ of faith) and puts forward
his own view of Jesus as an apocalyptic figure who preached a
radical message of the coming of the Kingdom of God. Though
Schweitzer's own proposals about Jesus no longer command assent,
his lasting contribution, comprising the bulk of the book, is the
critique of his predecessors. Through examining the works of more
than 50 18th- and 19th-century authors and scholars, he shows
conclusively that each historical reconstruction of Jesus was
largely a fantasy made in their own self-image.
Schweitzer's work has proved the touchstone for all subsequent
quests for the "Jesus of history." It also contributed in no small
measure to the remarkable resurgence in Jesus studies in the latter
part of the 20th century, which culminated in the much publicized
and highly controversial findings of the Jesus Seminar.
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The African Sermon (Hardcover)
Albert Schweitzer; Edited by Steven E. G. Melamed, Sr.; Steven E. G. Melamed, Sr.
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R1,178
Discovery Miles 11 780
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Every Sunday in Lambarene, Gabon, Albert Schweitzer delivered an
outdoor sermon in French. Although never intended for publication,
the sermons were transcribed by some of Schweitzer's listeners.
Translated into English and in one volume for the first time,
Steven E. G. Melamed, Sr., makes a great contribution to the field
with works that characterize Schweitzer's simplicity of language,
his emphasis on personal conduct, and his adaptation of biblical
stories to the everyday realities of African life.
Covering the period 1913-1935, his sermons evolved as Schweitzer
matured and became more attuned to his surroundings. As it contains
what is most likely the entire extant corpus of Schweitzer's
sermons in Africa, this book fills a gap in Schweitzer scholarship.
It affords a unique insight into his own beliefs and the prevailing
European attitude toward Africans.
"There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man."-Albert
Einstein, on Albert Schweitzer In July of 1913,
thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his
position as a respected professor at the University of Strasbourg
and celebrated authority on music and philosophy in order to go as
a physician to French Equatorial Africa (present-day Gabon). The
Primeval Forest is Schweitzer's own fascinating story of these
eventful years--a thrilling tale of his amazingly successful
attempt to practice modern medicine and surgery in the face of wild
elephant raids, marauding leopards, famine, an flood-a story rich
in human interest and high drama. Schweitzer describes how he and
his wife, a qualified nurse, worked to establish a hospital in the
steaming jungle at Lambarene. At first they treated patients in the
open air, amid unbelievably primitive conditions-with few drugs,
medicines, or adequate instruments. But they worked tirelessly,
caring for as many as forty cases a day, battling the misery caused
by sleeping sickness, leprosy, pestilence, and plague. And, as the
years went on, they gradually built a more permanent hospital to
alleviate the terrible suffering of the Congo people. "Here, in Dr.
Schweitzer's own words, is the inspiring and unforgettable account
of his years in Africa; his thrilling jungle adventures, and his
amazing experiences in bringing modern medicine and surgery to the
French Congo. The record of Schweitzer's day-by-day experience is
told so vividly that a responsive reader cannot fail to relive
these stirring events."-Richmond Times-Dispatch
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J.S. Bach (Hardcover)
Albert Schweitzer, Ernest Newman
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R1,154
Discovery Miles 11 540
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J.S. Bach (Paperback)
Albert Schweitzer, Ernest Newman
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R844
Discovery Miles 8 440
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Immediately after the Gospels, the New Testament takes up the
history of the early Christian Church, describing the works of the
twelve disciples, and introducing Paul, the man whose influence on
the history of Christianity is beyond calculation. Teacher,
preacher, conciliator, diplomat, theologian, rule giver, consoler,
and martyr, his life and writings became foundations for
Christianity. Paul inspired a vast, serious, and intelligent
literature that seeks to recapture his meaning, his thinking, and
his purpose.
In his letters to early Christian communities, Paul gave much
practical advice about organization and orthodoxy. These treated
the early Christian communities as something more than a group of
people who believed in the same faith: they were people bound
together by a common spirit unknown before. The significance of
that common spirit occupied the greatest of Christian theologians
from Athanasius and Augustine through Luther and Calvin.
In "The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle" Albert Schweitzer goes
against Luther and the Protestant tradition to look at what Paul
actually writes in the Epistles to the Romans and Galatians: an
emphasis upon the personal experience of the believer with the
divine. Paul's mysticism was not like the mysticism elsewhere
described as a soul being at one with God. In the mysticism he felt
and encouraged, there is no loss of self but an enriching of it; no
erasure of time or place but a comprehension of how time and place
fit within the eternal. Schweitzer writes that Paul's mysticism is
especially profound, liberating, and precise. Typical of
Schweitzer, he introduces readers to his point of view at once,
then describes in detail how he came to it, its scholarly
antecedents, what its implications are, what objections have been
raised, and why all of this matters. To students of the New
Testament, this book opens up Paul by presenting him as offering an
entirely new kind of mysticism, necessarily and exclusively
Christian.
"There is at least one other point that Albert Schweitzer scores
here... The hard-won recognition that divine authority and human
freedom ultimately cannot be in conflict must never be taken for
granted, and the irony that the thought of Paul has repeatedly been
invoked to undo that recognition truly does make this insight one
of 'the permanent elements.'"--from the Introduction
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