The Gospels: Jesus Christ (Revolutions)
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ISBN: 1844671763 / Publisher: Verso, October 2007
Hugo Chavez claims that Jesus Christ was "the greatest socialist inhistory." In this new presentation of the Gospels, renowned thinkerTerry Eagleton asks: Was Jesus a revolutionary? Eagleton's provocativenew introduction searches for the hidden radicalism in Jesus' life andthought.
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In this new presentation of the Gospels, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful and provocative argument for Jesus Christ as a social, political and moral radical, a friend of anti-imperialists, outcasts and marginals, a champion of the poor, the sick and immigrants, and as an opponent of the rich, religious hierarchs, and hypocrites everywhere—in other words, as a figure akin to revolutionaries like Robespierre, Marx, and Che Guevara.
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