Though it may seem he started late in life, changing careers twice, schweitzer still spent almost fifty years working in africa, healing sick people who would otherwise have died. Reverence for life at lambarene in albert schweitzers last. The teaching of reverence for life is a slim volume, penned late in life by albert schweitzer, the theologian who changed careers at age 30 to endure seven years of medical school and follow a call into medical missionary work. The words of albert schweitzer by albert schweitzer 117 ratings, 4. The words in the text are classified under six headings. After a doctorate in philosophy from the university of strasbourg 1899, schweitzer received his licentiate in theology 1900, and from 1901 to.
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