[1] The view was initiated by Johannes Weiss, and "picked up, developed, and popularized" by Albert Schweitzer.
[6] According to this view, asserted by Johannes Weiss (J. Weiß),[7] the proclamation of Jesus, his actions and ministry are dominated by the eschatological expectation of the impending return.
1:15) It has been described by one critic (George Eldon Ladd) as picturing: Jesus as a deluded Jewish apocalyptist who proclaimed an eschatological kingdom which never came and which never can come.
Jesus had no message about the rule of God in the world or his divine purpose for mankind in history.
He believed, mistakenly, that God was about to break off history and establish his eschatological kingdom in which he, Jesus, would be elevated to the glorious status of the Son of Man.