Who Said That?

"But the truth is, it is not Jesus as historically known, but Jesus as spiritually arisen within men, who is significant for our time and can help it.  Not the historical Jesus, but the spirit which goes forth from Him and in the spirits of men strives for new influence and rule, is that which overcomes the world."

Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  Answer to follow next week.

Update on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 12:30PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This comes from the conclusion of Albert Schweitzer's The Quest for the Historical Jesus (1906), p. 401.

Comments

["lee n. field"]

One of those old (or new) liberals. Schleiermacher, Spong, one of them.

[Josh]

John Dominic Crossan?

[Mark du Preez]

Emil Brunner?

[mike]

Albert Sweitzer

[pb]

Karl Barth?

[Aaron]

Pearl S. Buck

[bs]

Bultmann.

[Manfred]

Rob Bell.

[Stephen]

Certainly German-influenced: look at those long sentences! Albert Schweitzer

[Joy]

Bultmann!

[jeremy]

deepak chopra.

[Coyle]

Marcion?
Or, more recently, Bart Ehrman (amongst others...)

[dag]

Deepak Chopra

[Steven Carr]

Chopra, but it sure sounds like what a lot of modernist theologians say about Christ. It could also be Charles Dickinson.

[Adam]

Harry Emerson Fosdick

[Timimator]

Wimber