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020			_a9781783786695
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a241 _bBAG/GO
100			_aBaggini,Julian
245			_aGODLESS GOSPEL : Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher?
250			_a1
260			_aUK _bGranta Publishers _c2020/01/01
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500			_aDo Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks. Even 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. More books by this author
650			_aJesus Christ
650			_aEthics
650			_aMoral theology
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999			_c183084 _d183084