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A lutheran, schweitzer challenged both the secular view of jesus as depicted by the historicalcritical method current at this time, as well as the traditional christian view. I cannot avoid compassion for everything that is called. Quest narratives connect most directly with the fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain. Albert schweitzer has noted the contribution of indian influence in his book. The words of albert schweitzer gathered together for the first time in one place. Albert schweitzers reverence for life on futility rather than faith, on a sense that no one is in control of the illness. In your reverence for life you delightedly value the lives of others and of yourself. The ethic of reverence for life is the ethic of jesus brought to philosophical expression, extended into cosmical form, and conceived as intellectually necessary.
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