The divorce between history and faith. -- The gospels as fraud / Hermann Samuel Reimarus. -- History and myth / David Friedrich Strauss. -- Consistent scepticism / William Wrede. -- 'The Kingdom of God' / Albrecht Ritschl. -- Consistent eschatology / Albert Schweitzer. -- Rejection of the quest / Martin Kähler. -- The dialectical theology / Rudolf Bultmann. -- Re-opening the quest / Ernst Käsemann.