Theology Today - Vol 30, No.
True ethics involves the quest to preserve everything which wills to live.
OVER fifty years ago a missionary jungle doctor discovered what he believed was the fundamental principle upon which civilization depends if humanity would be related properly to God, neighbor, and nature. Seldom has one man combined so much within one life as Albert Schweitzer. He was a missionary in the primeval forest of Lambarene, a philosopher, a theologian, a musician, a doctor of medicine, a scholar, and a writer, but most of all he was one whose philosophy of God and life was not written merely in pen and ink but in selfless service. The searching had led him to an iron door that would not yield until suddenly, while he was William P. Tuck is Senior Minister of First Baptist Church, Bristol, Virginia, and Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at Virginia Intermont College. He holds the A.B. degree from the University of Richmond, the B.D. and Th.