Project Gutenberg 2025-04-16 Public domain in the USA. 252 Schweitzer, Albert 1875 1965 Lowrie, Walter 1868 1959 14021120 The mystery of the Kingdom of God : $b The secret of Jesus' messiahship and passion $aNew York :$bDodd, Mead and Company, $c1914. Actonian Press "The Mystery of the Kingdom of God: The Secret of Jesus’ Messiahship and Passion" by Albert Schweitzer is a scholarly theological treatise written in the early 20th century. The book likely explores new perspectives on the nature of Jesus’ messiahship, his passion (suffering and death), and the overarching idea of the Kingdom of God. Schweitzer questions and critiques the prevailing "liberal" and "modern-historical" interpretations of Jesus’ life, aiming instead to present an eschatological understanding rooted in both early Christian faith and the Synoptic Gospels. The beginning of this work sets out Schweitzer’s main argument: that traditional accounts of Jesus’ life become unclear when trying to explain why Jesus believed his own death was necessary and how he conceived of it as a redemptive act. He challenges the assumptions underlying the modern-historical approach, particularly the ideas that Jesus’ career had two distinct periods—success followed by failure—and that his understanding of the Passion was mainly shaped by early church doctrine (especially Pauline atonement concepts). Schweitzer contends instead that the secretive nature of Jesus’ messiahship, and the connection between his suffering and the coming of the Kingdom of God, require a fundamentally eschatological interpretation. The book’s opening critiques the inadequacies of contemporary scholarship and outlines the need for a new, more historically grounded approach that recognizes both the ethical teachings and the apocalyptic expectations at the heart of Jesus’ message. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/mysteryofkingdom00schw_0/page/n5/mode/2up 20250331060801schweitzer 1914 US Reading ease score: 58.3 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Jesus Christ -- Biography Jesus Christ -- Messiahship Kingdom of God BT Text Category: Religion/Spirituality 400668 2025-06-30T05:30:58.036842 text/html 373630 2025-04-16T16:45:17 text/html 231749 2025-06-30T05:31:02.955820 application/epub+zip 235037 2025-06-30T05:30:58.876828 application/epub+zip 196099 2025-06-30T05:30:58.385817 application/epub+zip 378435 2025-06-30T05:31:06.370781 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 323766 2025-06-30T05:31:02.603830 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 347629 2025-06-30T05:30:57.436810 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 327773 2025-04-16T16:45:17 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17526 2025-06-30T05:31:06.511775 application/rdf+xml 11535 2025-06-30T05:30:58.483841 image/jpeg 1950 2025-06-30T05:30:58.437815 image/jpeg 219954 2025-06-30T05:30:58.066866 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia de.wikipedia en.wikipedia