02301cam a22003497i 4500 3228 20250812114535.0 200714t20202020enk b 001 0 eng d 9781783786695 paperback 21885416 (OCoLC)1130768300 eng YDX rda OCLCQ ATNSH YDXIT PAU OCLCF NZHWP NZAUC DLC lccopycat BS2417.E8 B34 2020 241 BAGG Baggini, Julian, author. The godless gospel : was Jesus a great moral teacher? / Julian Baggini. London : Granta, 2020. ©2020 291 pages ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The moral philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth -- The Godless Gospel. 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 -- Source other than Library of Congress. Jesus Christ Ethics. 7 cbc copycat 3 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK 162 Elsie Maluleke 162 Elsie Maluleke 782385 782384 0 0 ddc 0 0 MASHML MASHML Non_Fiction 2025-08-12 0 241 BAGG 33228031103846 2025-08-12 2025-08-12 BOOK