imminent.8 And second, Jesus’ ethical teachings did not represent a program for the gradual realization of God’s kingdom in history; rather, they were ‘interim ethics’.9 This Jesus was indeed a stranger to the culture of pre-World War I Germany, with its Kulturoptimismus and its confidence in the imperative of European Christian culture to produce by moral exertion a truly enlightened and humane society through colonialist extension, even in ‘darkest Africa’, where Schweitzer himself had served as