{"agent_id":"schweitzer","agent_name":"Albert Schweitzer","slug":"thoroughgoing-eschatology","label":"Thoroughgoing eschatology: did Jesus expect an imminent end, and was he mistaken?","topic":"Thoroughgoing eschatology","question":"Did Jesus expect an imminent end, and was he mistaken?","position":"He expected the Kingdom within the lifetime of those he sent out, and it did not come. The delay is not an embarrassment to be explained away; it is the fact from which the rest of the history follows.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"He expected the Kingdom within the lifetime of those he sent out, and it did not come.","n":[1]},{"t":"The delay is not an embarrassment to be explained away; it is the fact from which the rest of the history follows.","n":[2,3,4]}]],"texts":"*Das Messianitäts- und Leidensgeheimnis* (1901); *Von Reimarus zu Wrede* (1906), especially the treatment of Matthew 10 and the closing chapters. Reception: C. H. Dodd's realised eschatology; Bultmann's demythologising, which accepts the diagnosis and relocates the meaning; the mid-century compromise of inaugurated eschatology; N. T. Wright's argument that the language is metaphorical for events within history.","works":["*Das Messianitäts- und Leidensgeheimnis* (1901)","*Von Reimarus zu Wrede* (1906), especially the treatment of Matthew 10 and the closing chapters"],"reception":"C. H. Dodd's realised eschatology; Bultmann's demythologising, which accepts the diagnosis and relocates the meaning; the mid-century compromise of inaugurated eschatology; N. T. Wright's argument that the language is metaphorical for events within history.","status":"The thesis on which everything else depends, and the one every subsequent school has been organised to accommodate or evade.","era":"1875-1965","discipline":"Theology, Philosophy","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"The Quest of the Historical Jesus","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"Jesus' expectation of the Kingdom is an expectation based upon a fact which exercises an active influence upon the Kingdom of God. It was not He, and not the Baptist who \"were working at the coming of the Kingdom\"; it is the host of penitents which is wringing it from God, so that it may now come at any moment.","label":"The Quest of the Historical Jesus"},{"n":2,"work":"The Kingdom of God and Primitive Christianity","page":"pp. 132–133","canonical":"","quote":"And he saith unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. And they went away in the boat to a desert place apart. And the people saw them going, and many knew them, and they ran there together on foot from all the cities, and outwent them\" (Mk. 6: 30-33).","label":"The Kingdom of God and Primitive Christianity, pp. 132–133"},{"n":3,"work":"Reverence for Life, The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer","page":"pp. 269–270","canonical":"","quote":"But that is in fact what did happen: There followed neither the sufferings, nor the outpouring of the Spirit, nor the Parousia of the Son of Man. The disciples returned safe and sound and full of a proud satisfaction; for one promise had been realized—the power which had been given them over the demons.","label":"Reverence for Life, The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer, pp. 269–270"},{"n":4,"work":"The Quest of the Historical Jesus","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"This thought disappears once for all. In the secret of His passion which Jesus reveals to the disciples at Caesarea Philippi the pre-Messianic tribulation is for others set aside, abolished, concentrated upon Himself alone, and that in the form that they are fulfilled in His own passion and death at Jerusalem. That was the new conviction that had dawned upon Him. He must suffer for others...","label":"The Quest of the Historical Jesus"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"the-quest-as-self-portraiture","label":"The quest as self-portraiture: does every reconstruction of Jesus reveal its author?"},{"slug":"reverence-for-life","label":"Reverence for life: is an ethic without limits an ethic at all?"},{"slug":"paul-the-mystic","label":"Paul the mystic: is being-in-Christ the centre of Paul, rather than justification by faith?"}]}