02249nam a2200349 i 4500001001900000003000600019005001700025008004100042015001900083016001800102020001800120035002100138035002600159035001800185040003800203041000800241050002500249100003500274245007800309260003500387300002300422500002700445504005100472520109500523600003201618600003601650600003501686650005701721942000801778952009801786999001501884990227835230107026UkOxU20251112160244.0210625r20212020enk      b    001|0 eng d  aGBC1A62102bnb7 a0202491892Uk  a9781783782321  a(UkOxU)022783523  a(UkOxU)022783523BIB01  a(Uk)020249189  aStDuBDSbengerdacStDuBDSdUkOxU  aeng  aBS2417 E8 bB34 2020  aBaggini, Julianeauthor92614214aThe godless gospelb: was Jesus a great moral teacher?c/ Julian Baggini.  aLondon :bGranta Books,c2021.  a291 pages ;c20 cm  aFirst published: 2020.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a
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. 0aJesus ChristxEthics926490 0aJesus ChristxPhilosophy926491 0aJesus ChristxTeachings926492 0aBible GospelsvCriticism, interpretation, etc926493  2lcc  00102lcc4070aTBSbTBSd2025-11-12l0oBS2417.E8 BAGpB05651r2025-11-12t1w2025-11-12y1  c5175d5175