page_title: The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present
hierarchical_section_title: The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present
caption_attribution_description: Albert Schweitzer, 1952
context_page_description: Die Leugnung der Geschichtlichkeit Jesu in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart was a 1926 book in German by Arthur Drews on Christ myth theory.
  The book is a historical review of some 35 major deniers of Jesus historicity covering the period 1780 – 1926, and was meant to be Drews’s response to Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus of 1906. Drews’s book was in fact presented in the guise of "Quest of the non-Historicity of Jesus", with its own historical review of the key Jesus deniers.
  As Schweitzer erected himself as the champion of "historicists", Drews stood up in opposition as the champion of
  "radicals" and "Jesus historicity deniers". They were later labelled "mythicists" by the media, a name never used by Drews, but popularized in the early 1940s by the British writers A.D. Howell Smith, in his book Jesus Not A Myth and Archibald Robertson in his book Jesus: Myth or History?. This new label was convenient in opposing "mythicists" versus "historicists".
context_section_description: Die Leugnung der Geschichtlichkeit Jesu in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (English: The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present) was a 1926 book in German by Arthur Drews on Christ myth theory. 
  The book is a historical review of some 35 major deniers of Jesus historicity (radicals, mythicists) covering the period 1780 – 1926, and was meant to be Drews’s response to Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus of 1906. Drews’s book was in fact presented in the guise of "Quest of the non-Historicity of Jesus", with its own historical review of the key Jesus deniers.
  As Schweitzer erected himself as the champion of "historicists", Drews stood up in opposition as the champion of 
  "radicals" and "Jesus historicity deniers". They were later labelled "mythicists" by the media, a name never used by Drews, but popularized in the early 1940s by the British writers A.D. Howell Smith, in his book Jesus Not A Myth (1942) and Archibald Robertson in his book Jesus: Myth or History? (1946). This new label was convenient in opposing "mythicists" versus "historicists".
caption: Albert Schweitzer, 1952 Nobel portrait, criticized the Lives of Jesus reconstructions
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