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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks, The Godless Gospel asks: Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? 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, 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.
© 2020 W. F. Howes Ltd (Äänikirja): 9781004017157
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Äänikirja: 1. lokakuuta 2020
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4.8
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks, The Godless Gospel asks: Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? 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, 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.
© 2020 W. F. Howes Ltd (Äänikirja): 9781004017157
Julkaisupäivä
Äänikirja: 1. lokakuuta 2020
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Arviot perustuu 4 arvioon
Informatiivinen
Ajatuksia herättävä
Inspiroiva
Lataa sovellus niin voit osallistua keskusteluun ja kirjoittaa oman arviosi.
Arviot 2/4
Mia
20. huhtik. 2024
Kiinnostava näkökulma ja vakuuttavasti perusteltu näkemys Jeesuksen opetuksista. Kirja paljastaa myös armottomasti miten kauas alkuperäisestä sanomasta nykykristilliset tulkinnat ovat liukuneet.
Jouni
9. jouluk. 2022
I like the way the book was established. Very informative, down to earth and with no prejudice. I was surpriced to learn that I already knew all of the teachings by Jesus.
Suomi
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