Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), famous for being a missionary doctor in Africa (Out of My Life) and for his "reverence for life," had three earned doctorates -- music, theology, and medicine -- and it was his second one that got him in trouble with the religious authorities. When he sniffed the wind of opposition to his free-thinking about Jesus, he chose to spend his life in Africa in obscurity as he worked out his own ideas.
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