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...chilly October day in 1905, another young man with great possessions dropped half a dozen letters into a Paris post box. Though Albert Schweitzer was only 30, he had already achieved far more than most men do in a lifetime. He was recognized as one of Europe's leading organists; his biography of Bach had been hailed as "a new revelation." As a Doctor of Philosophy, he was known for his work on Kant. As a theologian, he had been appointed principal of Strasbourg's Theological College of St. Thomas...
...Albert Schweitzer, now 72, is still fighting death and ignorance in the jungle. So many highbrows (familiar with his scholarly books and his recordings of organ music) have referred to him as the greatest man in the world that he is sometimes known as "the great man's great man." His audience has never been large; but now, at the end of his life, it may at last be dramatically expanding. Two Schweitzer biographies have already appeared this fall: a slick, popular book called Prophet in the Wilderness, by Hermann Hagedorn (Macmillan; $3), and a scholarly book by George...
Overcoat & Broth. In the little Alsatian village of Günsbach, where he grew up, Albert Schweitzer's schoolmates looked on him as "a sprig of the gentry" because he was the parson's son. To be set apart from the other boys was an agony to him; he suffered many a whipping rather than wear an overcoat, the badge of a "gentleman." Once, after he had won a wrestling match, his opponent said: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week as you do, I should be as strong as you are." From then...
...Spiritual Jesus. The Lord Jesus who told Schweitzer to come to the Ogowe was not the orthodox Christ that he had been taught about in Strasbourg. A determined rationalist, who insists that all religious truth must "stand to reason," Schweitzer came to the conclusion that the Jesus of history was not a God but a man of his time with a limited mind and understanding. Schweitzer's chief point: Jesus, like many Jews of his time, believed that God was momentarily about to end the physical world and inaugurate his Kingdom. In this expectation, reasoned Schweitzer, Christ sent...
Abraham A. M. Schweitzer...