For For students of New Testament eschatology who know the Quest; a late, unfinished summing-up, not an introduction.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
His last, unfinished study of the Kingdom of God from the prophets to the early church, published after his death. A summing-up of his eschatological reading.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural4 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical4 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A late work on the idea of the Kingdom of God from the prophets and Jewish apocalyptic through Jesus, Paul and the early church, left unfinished by Schweitzer and published after his death, edited by Ulrich Neuenschwander, in 1967; the English translation by L. A. Garrard appeared in 1968. It restates, at the end of his life, the eschatological reading of the New Testament he had argued since 1901.
