![]() ![]() When he went to Africa, it became easy to tuck him away as a convenient symbol of humanitarian sacrifice, and to ignore the bothersome notions which had shocked thinkers of his day: Schweitzer argued (as early as 1900), that civilization was already dead, and that we live in a barbarous society. ![]() Yet today, his philosophy has been forgotten. 1 Yet, in addition to being a theologian, minister, and concert organist, Schweitzer was also a philosopher. Today he is chiefly known for his medical mission, and secondly as the theologian who shaped our modern view of early Christian eschatology. ![]() Unlike Mother Teresa, however, Schweitzer gave up not one, but four brilliant careers to became a doctor in equatorial Africa. At the time of his death in 1965, he was the household symbol of the best sacrificial instincts in humanity, a man who gave all he had to serve among the poorest of the poor. No theory of the universe has been advanced which can give them a solid foundation.Įfore there was Mother Teresa, there was Albert Schweitzer. The ethical ideas on which civilization rests have been wandering about the world, poverty stricken and homeless. ![]()
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