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front by the revolt of certain German students of the life of
Christ against the superficial, inadequate, and unhis- torical
modernization of the figure of Jesus which had become the fashion
in certain German "liberal" circles. An effort to get back to the
real Jesus and interpret him in his historical milieu immediately
raised the question as to what he meant by his references to his
own future and the coming of the kingdom of God. The liberal
portrait of Jesus had achieved a wide vogue. There was a scholarly
consensus of opinion as to the main outlines of Jesus' life. The
attempt to answer the escha- tological question issued in two
contradictory conclusions. Wrede declared that Jesus never regarded
himself as the messiah; the references to his place in the kingdom
had been read back into his teaching by the apostles, who after his
death came to the view announced in the gospels. Jesus, was only a
pre-eminent Jewish prophet, who died for his fidelity to his
message.1 Schweitzer came to just the opposite conclusion: Jesus'
belief that he was the messiah and messiah in the transcendental,
supernaturalistic sense, was the center of his conduct, the key to
unlock the mystery of his life and death. The language Jesus used
is not to be toned down or explained away. He meant what he said
and died in the full faith that he would shortly return on the
clouds of heaven, believing that by going through this great
"affliction" he was making it possible for the kingdom to come.2 1
Wilhelm Wrede (1859-1906, professor of evangelical theology in
Breslau from 1893), Das Messiasgeheimnis in den Evangelien.
Gottingen, 1901. ' Albert Schweitzer, Mystery of the Kingdom: The
Secret of Jesus' Messiahship and Passion. Translated with an
Introduction by Walter Lowrie, New York, 1914; The Que...
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