Do 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.

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