Consistent Eschatology Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) recognized that the noneschatological pronouncements of the liberal view were simply modernizations, that is, personal projections of the individual scholars who wrote on the subject, rather than the results of sound historical analyses. He endorsed and expanded on the view of Johannes Weiss (1863–1914) that the apocalyptic element in Jesus’ teaching was not the husk but the kernel of his teaching,5 and in his The Mystery of the Kingdom of God