Schweitzer's passionate quest was to discover a universal ethical philosophy, anchored in a universal reality, and make it directly available to all of humanity.

Albert Schweitzer's birthplace, Kaysersberg.

Schweitzer's home language was an Alsatian dialect of German.

The exposition of these ideas, encouraged by Widor and Munch, became Schweitzer's next task, and appeared in the masterly study J. S. Bach: Le Musicien-Poète, written in French and published in 1905.

Three more, to contain the Chorale Preludes with Schweitzer's analyses, were to be worked on in Africa: but these were never completed, perhaps because for him they were inseparable from his evolving theological thought.

Schweitzer's pedal piano was still in use at Lambaréné in 1946.

Dr Schweitzer's recordings of organ-music, and his innovative recording technique, are described separately below.

( Her father, Charles Schweitzer, was the older brother of Albert Schweitzer's father, Louis Théophile.

Schweitzer's term as the IMF's Managing Director was a critical period, not only due to the collapse of the Par Value System, but also for the creation of the special drawing rights ( SDR ), as an international reserve asset ( 1968 ); the establishment of the two-tier gold market, and the work of the Committee of Twenty of the International Monetary System on reforming the international financial system.

Mühlstein is married to Dr. Verena Mühlstein (* 1953 ), author of a biography about Albert Schweitzer's wife, Helene Breslau, who is also active at Beth Shalom.

No work, it was said, had ever been so idiomatically and yet so faithfully rendered as his translation of Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus, published in 1914.

Schweitzer's reputation led him to be mentioned by some political pundits in the liberal blogosphere as being among the top candidates for Vice President under Democratic nominee Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

The trial was held in a school building overlooking the Ogooue River, near Albert Schweitzer's hospital.

Schweitzer's construction was then modified by Jenny Harrison in 1988 to make a counterexample for some.

Some recent scholars have reasserted Schweitzer's eschatological view of Jesus: see Dale Allison in his 1998 work Jesus of Nazareth, Millenarian Prophet and Bart D. Ehrman in 1999 work Jesus, Apolocyptic Prophet of the New Millennium.

Schweitzer's critique of historical Jesus research significantly undermined the two-century-old attempt to discover a historical Jesus who conformed to the tenets of Enlightenment Era rationalism.

Schweitzer's other philanthropic activities included the donation of 1 % of his annual income to the United Nations, and the ex gratia purchase of a barber shop on behalf of the barber who had previously rented the premises.

Schweitzer's only requirement was an entitlement to a free haircut after regular business hours upon request.

Under Schweitzer's leadership, Vera pioneered the use of controlled, experimental design research methods in state courts.

The Christ-myth theory was refuted in the second edition of Albert Schweitzer's book The Quest of the Historical Jesus.

Followers of Chomskyan generative approach to grammar soon investigated two different types of semantics, which, unfortunately, clashed in an effusive debate, these were interpretative and generative semantics.

Commencing in the 1970s, a changing approach to heritage conservation at Parks Canada, coupled with growing regionalism and a more assertive Aboriginal rights movement, led to the next generation of interpretative documents, one that included a focus on the societies which Canada's 19th-century expansion had displaced.

This interpretative aspect of Heidegger's project had a profound influence on the hermeneutic approach of his student Hans-Georg Gadamer.

It was distinctive from the earlier discourse analytic approach to social psychology in its use of records of natural interaction rather than open ended interviews and its focus on sequential interaction rather than on the identification of interpretative repertoires.

Both Weber and Georg Simmel pioneered the Verstehen ( or ' interpretative ') approach toward social science ; a systematic process in which an outside observer attempts to relate to a particular cultural group, or indigenous people, on their own terms and from their own point-of-view.

Both Weber and Georg Simmel pioneered the verstehen ( or ' interpretative ') approach toward social science ; a systematic process in which an outside observer attempts to relate to a particular cultural group, or indigenous people, on their own terms and from their own point of view.

., a peerless technique and an arresting and frequently original interpretative approach.

His writings about science influenced Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend, although he denies that " indwelling " within ( sometimes incompatible ) interpretative frameworks traps us within them.

Due to its emphasis on following the interpretative tradition of the great commentators on Aquinas ( such as Capreolus, Cajetan, and John of St. Thomas ) and associated suspicion of attempts to synthesize Thomism with non-Thomistic categories and assumptions, it has also sometimes been labeled “ Strict Observance Thomism .” Still, its focus was less on exegesis of the historical Aquinas ’ s own texts than on carrying out the program of deploying a rigorously worked out system of Thomistic metaphysics in a wholesale critique of modern philosophy.

Made up of hundreds of essays on the thought of individuals, the work neither engaged with other scholarship nor developed an interpretative model for understanding modern Britain ".

The centre is designed to be self touring and to provide a more modern interpretative experience for visitors.

" Again, in the words of a critic, Arthur McCalla, the growth in young-earth creationism occurred not only because modern fundamantalists were more ignorant than in previous generations, but also because young-earth creationism " better defended a plain-sense reading of the inerrant Bible than did the old-Earth creationism of Ramm and the earlier Fundamentalists .... Legions of Bible believers responded gratefully to Whitcomb and Morris because their system eliminated once and for all the need for interpretative contortions that twist and bend the words of the Bible in order to reconcile them with the findings of modern science.

A small number of publications are offered for sale in the centre, and given the absence of interpretative panels on the site, are an essential buy for those with an interest in understanding what it is they are looking at.

" He explained his process as a " spontaneous method of irrational understanding based upon the interpretative critical association of delirious phenomena.

The interpretative work of scholars such as Kofi Agawu and Lawrence Kramer fall between the analytic and the music historical.

In an interview in 1998 with the London Sunday Times, Berglund spoke of his interpretative ideas on the music of Jean Sibelius:

The music genre has roots in the country as it spread in the early 1960s from the United States with the earliest versions of rock and roll during this period being cover versions or interpretative covers of already existing songs.

I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.

Second, it is " merely an interpretative provision ", operating to ensure that references to " the Queen " in the Constitution are references to whoever may at the time be the incumbent of the " sovereignty of the United Kingdom " as determined with regard to Australia, following the Australia Act 1986, by Australian law.

Likewise aesthetic judgments seem often to be at least partly intellectual and interpretative.

African dance is interpretative.

In this interpretative schema, the institution of the Rex Nemorensis and related ritual should be seen as related to the theme of the dying god and the kings of May.

Possibly those who bought texts supplied their own interpretative markings.

I believed its own claim about itself, that it was determined to translate exactly what was there, and inject no extra paraphrasing or interpretative glosses .... Disillusionment set in over the next two years, as I lectured verse by verse through several of Paul's letters, not least Galatians and Romans.

Covenant theology is a broad interpretative framework used to understand the Bible.

" He goes on to state that psychotherapy " has a narrower meaning, namely the use of interpretative ( mostly Freudian ) methods of therapy.

For this interpretative assistant, it would be unwelcome to fall into trance.

The quality and style of the different translators also varied considerably from book to book, from the literal to paraphrasing to interpretative.

Arrow-like symbols in Lascaux are sometimes interpreted as calendar or almanac use, but the evidence remains interpretative.

It provides interpretative strategies, so that UUs ( among others ) might be able to engage in public debate about what the Bible says from a liberal religious perspective, rather than relinquishing to religious conservatives, and other more literal interpretations, all control over the book's contents and significance in matters of public and civic import.

, c. 1220, Gukanshō ( The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219 ).

, c. 1220, Gukanshō ( The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219 ).

2. repudiare refuse them through an interpretative sleight of hands.

His performances of these compositions have often been hailed as models of interpretative penetration, and his best-known recordings are those of the Beethoven piano sonatas.

" Generally, what we know about Annie and about the relationship comes filtered through Alvy, an intrusive narrator capable of halting the narrative and stepping out from it in order to entreat the audience's interpretative favor.

Modern hermeneutics encompasses everything in the interpretative process including verbal and nonverbal forms of communication as well as prior aspects that affect communication, such as presuppositions, preunderstandings, the meaning and philosophy of language, and semiotics.

While Jewish and Christian Biblical hermeneutics have some overlap and dialogue, they have distinctly separate interpretative traditions.