02140nam a2200337 i 4500 990227835230107026 UkOxU 20251112160244.0 210625r20212020enk b 001|0 eng d GBC1A6210 bnb 020249189 Uk 9781783782321 (UkOxU)022783523 (UkOxU)022783523BIB01 (Uk)020249189 StDuBDS eng rda StDuBDS UkOxU eng BS2417 E8 B34 2020 Baggini, Julian author 26142 The godless gospel : was Jesus a great moral teacher? / Julian Baggini. London : Granta Books, 2021. 291 pages ; 20 cm First published: 2020. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Jesus Christ Ethics 26490 Jesus Christ Philosophy 26491 Jesus Christ Teachings 26492 Bible Gospels Criticism, interpretation, etc 26493 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-11-12 0 BS2417.E8 BAG B05651 2025-11-12 1 2025-11-12 1 5175 5175