Last weekend was, for Christians, Easter Weekend. I let it pass unnoticed here. I come so tardy to the fair because I started work on a Good Friday post on related subject matter, but it got out of hand. I went with some thoughts on Auden and love, instead. Today, though, I would like to talk a bit about The Mystery of the Kingdom of God, a 'golden age' book by Albert Schweitzer, 1914, precisely about the life, ministry and death of Jesus. Consider this my effort at a fair paraphrase of Schweitzer's deep and complicated book. Schweitzer, best remembered as the medical missionary of his later years after he had put his academic career behind him, was intellectually a remarkable figure who both was and was not a believing Christian. He understanding of the mission of Jesus, Jesus' own self-understanding, is one on which people of entirely secular turns of mind could agree without sacrifice of that secularism. Indeed, Jesus comes off as a compelling...