Arthur Drews - PDF Wikipedia Aug. 23, 2012 PAGES - Radikalkritik

Professor De Mey offers a list of 87 books and articles: 83 publications in
1909-1927 (62 in German, 19 in English, 2 in French), plus 4 isolated odd
ones.[19] A near-unanimity of the responses cited by De Mey are opposed to
Drews's conclusions, with some variations. Drews is pictured as a lone
maverick facing the established club of academic scholars and theologians.
■ - 68 citations of publications in the 1909-1913 period (52 in German, 14 in
English, 2 in French), until Schweitzer's 2d edition of The Quest (1913).
The list includes established German authorities such as Wilhelm
Bousset, Daniel Chwolson, Alfred Jeremias, Adolf Jülicher, Paul Wilhelm
Schmiedel, Albert Schweitzer, Paul Tillich, Ernst Troeltsch, Hermann von
Soden, and Johannes Weiss
Of the 40 theologians already listed by Schweitzer's Quest in his second
edition, De Mey ignores 9 scholars (as not being "fundamental"
theologians) that Schweitzer had considered significant, including an
important response by the famous Babylonian expert Peter Jensen.
■ - 15 citations after the 2d edition of The Quest, in 1914-1927. Of those, 10
were in German, 5 in English. Thus showing that Schweitzer's 2d. edition
of the Quest in no way stopped the flow of further rebuttals by German
theologians. It is WWI and its catastrophic aftermath in Germany that
dampened the theological fervor for refutations.
The Major Refutations (in English & French) from 1912 to WW II
WWI put a damper on the heated flurry of refutations to Arthur Drews's Christ
Myth, but they continued unabated, if more sporadically, until WWII. The major
critical works weighed the merits of the arguments on both sides to conclude by
confirming the historicity of Jesus against the deniers:
■ Shirley Jackson Case (1872-1947), The Historicity of Jesus: a Criticism of
the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for
His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity (1912).
Canadian-born, Case was a professor at the Un. of Chicago. His book
uses the Christ of Faith as the basis for his argumentation, maintaining