What Jesus meant
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Word Count
35,750 words, Guess
Page Count
143 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewhatjesusmeant00will
- ISBN-100670034967
- ISBN-139780670034963
- LibraryThing699160
- Library of Congress Control Number2005042377
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL3421562M
Classifications
- DDC232
- LCCBS2415 .W48 2006
Description
In what are billed as "culture wars," people on the political right and the political left cite Jesus as endorsing their views. Wills argues that Jesus subscribed to no political program--He was far more radical than that. It is only by dodges and evasions that people misrepresent what Jesus plainly had to say against power, the wealthy, and religion itself. Jesus came from the working class, and he spoke to and for that class. This book will challenge the assumptions of almost everyone who brings religion into politics--"Christian socialists" as well as biblical theocrats. But Wills is just as critical of those who would make Jesus a mere ethical teacher, ignoring or playing down his divinity--Jesus without the Resurrection is simply not the Jesus of the gospels. He argues that this does not make people embrace an otherworldliness that ignores the poor or the problems of our time.--From publisher description.
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