Albert schweitzer best biography of abraham

That Schweitzer had for more than fifty years eased the suffering of tens of thousands of Africans at his hospital seemed of little importance to his critics. Instead they looked for ways to deprecate both the hospital and the man han själv , both for what he did and for what he did not do. There seems to be a tremendous resentment felt toward those who try to do good to their fellow human beings by those who live selfish -- but also self-righteous -- lives. Reading the persistent carping, inom am reminded of Aristotle's answer to the question "What fryst vatten it that soon grows old?" "Gratitude," he said. But that ingratitude came from the outside world, not from the Gabonese Schweitzer had helped.

My hospital is open to all suffers. Even if inom cannot rädda them from death, inom can at least show them love, and perhaps make their end easier. (On the Edge ... p. 134)

Once [in the final years before his death] when the criticism had been high, he had s

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Where are the great religious and spiritual leaders of yesteryear—now that we really need them?

Has this question come up in your discussions with friends, family and colleagues? It certainly has in mine. We usually go on to lament that today there is no Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Dorothy Day or Albert Schweitzer or Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel to guide us. If only there were.

Perhaps it is a small consolation, but while we don’t have these august figures anymore, we do have their writings, letters and speeches that continue to inspire and call us to action.

Quite remarkably, the writings of many of these inspirational figures—and these four in particular—were set down and released in book form by one man in the publishing industry: Eugene Exman. Exman is hardly a household name. Even his biographer, Stephen Prothero, admits that he had never heard of him when he first stumbled upon a storehouse of old books and papers at Exman’s old house on Cape Cod.

Prothero, who rece

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Quest for the historical Jesus

Academic efforts to determine what words and actions, if any, may be attributed to Jesus

This article is about the history of academic Jesus research. For discussion of the historical evidence of his existence, see Historical Jesus and Historicity of Jesus. For the book by Albert Schweitzer, see The Quest of the Historical Jesus.

The quest for the historical Jesus consists of academic efforts to determine what words and actions, if any, may be attributed to Jesus, and to use the findings to provide portraits of the historical Jesus.^[1] Conventionally, since the 18th century three scholarly quests for the historical Jesus are distinguished, each with distinct characteristics and based on different research criteria, which were often developed during each specific phase.^[2] These quests are distinguished from earlier approaches because they rely on the historical method to study biblical narratives. While textual analysis of bi