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050 0 0 _aBS2417.E8
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082 0 4 _a241 BAGG
100 1 _aBaggini, Julian,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe godless gospel :
_bwas Jesus a great moral teacher? /
_cJulian Baggini.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bGranta,
_c2020.
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a291 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe moral philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth -- The Godless Gospel.
520 _aEven if we don't believe that Jesus was the son of God, we tend to think he was a great moral teacher. But was he? And how closely do idealised values such as our love of the family, helping the needy, and the importance of kindness, match Jesus's original tenets? Julian Baggini challenges our assumptions about Christian values - and about Jesus - by focusing on Jesus's teachings in the Gospels, stripping away the religious elements such as the accounts of miracles or the resurrection of Christ. Reading closely this new 'godless' Gospel, included as an appendix, Baggini asks how we should understand Jesus's attitude to the renunciation of the self, to politics, or to sexuality, as expressed in Jesus's often elusive words. An atheist from a Catholic background, Baggini introduces us to a more radical Jesus than popular culture depicts. And as he journeys deeper into Jesus's worldview, and grapples with Jesus's sometimes contradictory messages, against his scepticism he finds that Jesus's words amount to a purposeful and powerful philosophy, which has much to teach us today --
_cSource other than Library of Congress.
600 0 0 _aJesus Christ
_xEthics.
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