The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle

Originally published in 1930, this work goes beyond the traditional concerns of Luther and the Protestant tradition to look at what Paul actually wrote to the Romans and the Galatians in his Epistles. In Paul's mysticism, argues the famous doctor and thinker Schweitzer, there is not denial of the self in the service of God, but in fact there is an enrichment of the self and the soul. Translated from Mystik des Apostels Paulus. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1952. Although he proved himself highly gifted in science, theology, and music, and as an author, Schweitzer dedicated the later part of his life to medicine and to a hospital he founded in French Equatorial Africa. A true humanitarian, he used his Nobel Prize stipend to expand the hospital and to build a leper colony. His other titles available from Johns Hopkins University Press include The Quest of the Historical Jesus, The Primeval Forest, and Out of My Life and Thought.