French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
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A theologian who upended both secular and Christian views of Jesus, then walked away from European lecture halls to build a hospital in equatorial Africa — and won the Nobel Peace Prize for a philosophy he called "Reverence for Life."
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer was born in Alsace on 14 January 1875, a German polymath who moved between theology, music, and medicine with equal force. As a Lutheran minister he challenged the historical-critical method's portrait of Jesus and reframed Pauline Christianity around mysticism rather than justification by faith. He was also a music scholar and organist who studied Johann Sebastian Bach and shaped the Organ Reform Movement. Then he founded the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa, and sustained it for decades — a living expression of his philosophy o…
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life — it is bad to damage and destroy life.
A word in conclusion about the relations between the whites and blacks. What must be the general character of the intercourse between them?
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