The Philosophy of Jesus

Amazingly, no one ever seems to have looked at Jesus as a philosopher, or his teaching as philosophy. Yet no one in history has ever had a more radically new philosophy, or made more of a difference to philosophy, than Jesus. He divided all human history into two, into "B.C." and "A.D."; and the history of philosophy is crucial to human history, since philosophy is crucial to man; so how could He not also divide philosophy?  
  
This book * (1) looks at Jesus as a complete human being (as well as divine), therefore?also as a philosopher; * (2) looks at philosophy as Jesus' pre-modern contemporaries did, as a wisdom, a world-view, and a way of life rather than as a super-science (Descartes, Hegel) or as a servant-science (Hobbes, Hume); * (3) looks at philosophy in light of Jesus rather than at Jesus in light of philosophy.

It explores the consequences of Etienne Gilson's point that when St. John brought Christianity and Greek philosophy into contact and identified the Messiah the Jews had most deeply sought with the logos that the Greeks had most deeply sought, nothing happened to Christ but something happened to the logos.  
  
This book explores the most radical revolution in the history of philosophy, the differences Jesus made to metaphysics (the philosophy of being), to epistemology (the philosophy of knowing), to anthropology (the philosophy of man), and to philosophical ethics and politics.  
  
And, besides, it has the greatest ending of any philosophy book in a century.  
  
Contents  
Introduction 1: Who Is It For?  
  
Introduction 2: How Is Jesus a Philosopher?  
  
Introduction 3: What Are the Four Great Questions of Philosophy?  
  
I. Jesus’ Metaphysics (What is real?)* Jesus’ Jewish Metaphysics* Jesus’ New Name for God* The Metaphysics of Love* The Moral Consequences of Metaphysics* Sanctity as the Key to Ontology* The Metaphysics of “I AM”

II. Jesus’ Epistemology (How do we know what is real?)  
  
III. Jesus’ Anthropology (Who are we who know what is real?)  
  
IV. Jesus’ Ethics (What should we be to be more real?)* Christian Personalism: Seeing “Jesus only”* Jesus and Legalism* Jesus and Relativism* Jesus and the Secret of Moral Success* Jesus and Sex* Jesus and Social Ethics: Solidarity* Jesus and Politics: Is He Left or Right?  
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Looking at Jesus as a complete human being and philosopher, explores the most radical revolution in the history of philosophy--the differences Jesus made to metaphysics, epistemology, anthropology, and philosophical ethics and politics.Read less