The Mystery of the Kingdom of God

About this eBook

Author

Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965

Title

The mystery of the Kingdom of God : The secret of Jesus' messiahship and passion

Original Publication

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914.

Credits

Actonian Press

Language

English

LoC Class

BT: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Doctrinal theology, God, Christology

Subject

Kingdom of God

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 75886

Release Date

April 16, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE — THE MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
3. 3.AN INTRODUCTION — BY THE TRANSLATOR — 1. An Account of Schweitzer’s Work and Its Reception. — 2. The Significance of Schweitzer’s Work.
4. 4.FOOTNOTES
5. 5.CHAPTER I — THE MODERN “HISTORICAL” SOLUTION — 1. Summary Account of It. — 2. The Four Assumptions of the Modern-Historical Solution. — 3. The Two Contrasted Periods. (First Assumption.) — 4. The Influence of the Pauline Theory of the Atonement upon the Formulation of the Synoptical Prediction of the Passion. (Second Assumption.) — 5. The Kingdom of God as an Ethical Entity in the Passion Idea. (Third Assumption.) — 6. The Form of the Prediction of the Passion. (Fourth Assumption.) — 7. Résumé.
6. 6.CHAPTER II — THE “DEVELOPMENT” OF JESUS — 1. The Kingdom of God as an Ethical and as an Eschatological Fact. — 2. The Eschatological Character of the Charge to the Twelve. — 3. The New View.
7. 7.CHAPTER III — THE PREACHING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD — 1. The New Morality as Repentance. — 2. The Ethics of Jesus and Modern Ethics.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV — THE SECRET OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD — 1. The Parables of the Secret of the Kingdom of God. — 2. The Secret of the Kingdom of God in the Address to the People after the Mission of the Twelve. — 3. The Secret of the Kingdom of God in the Light of the Prophetic and Jewish Expectation. — 4. The Secret of the Kingdom of God and the Assumption of a Fortunate Galilean Period. — 5. The Secret of the Kingdom of God and the Universalism of Jesus. — 6. The Secret of the Kingdom of God and Jesus’ Attitude towards the Law and the State. — 7. The Modern Element in Jesus’ Eschatology.
9. 9.CHAPTER V — THE SECRET OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN THE THOUGHT OF THE PASSION
10. 10.CHAPTER VI — THE CHARACTER ASCRIBED TO JESUS ON THE GROUND OF HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY — 1. The Problem and the Facts. — 2. Jesus Is Elijah through His Solidarity with the Son of Man. — 3. Jesus Is Elijah through the Signs which Proceed from Him. — 4. The Victory over Demons and the Secret of the Kingdom of God. — 5. Jesus and the Baptist. — 6. The Baptist and Jesus. — 7. The Blind Man at Jericho and the Ovation at the Entrance to Jerusalem.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII — AFTER THE MISSION OF THE TWELVE. LITERARY AND HISTORICAL PROBLEMS — 1. The Voyage on the Lake after the Return of the Twelve. — 2. The Supper by the Seashore. — 3. The Week at Bethsaida.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII — THE SECRET OF MESSIAHSHIP — 1. From the Mount of Transfiguration to Cæsarea Philippi — 2. The Futuristic Character of Jesus’ Messiahship. — 3. The Son of Man and the Futuristic Character of Jesus’ Messiahship. — 4. The Resurrection of the Dead and the Futuristic Character of Jesus’ Messiahship. — 5. The Betrayal by Judas—the Last Disclosure of the Secret of Messiahship.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX — THE SECRET OF THE PASSION — 1. The Pre-Messianic Affliction. — 2. The Idea of the Passion in the First Period. — 3. The “Temptation” and the Divine Omnipotence. — 4. The Idea of the Passion in the Second Period. — 5. Isaiah 40[-66]: The Secret of the Passion Foretold in the Scripture. — 6. The “Human” Element in the Secret of the Passion. — 7. The Idea of the Passion in the Primitive Church. The Shifting of the Perspective.
14. 14.CHAPTER X — SUMMARY OF THE LIFE OF JESUS
15. 15.POSTSCRIPT
16. 16.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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