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According to Don Cupit, an emeritis Cambridge professor, who was ordained as an Anglican priest

and whose theology has earned in both fame and notoriety, there's a figure from history who's been much overlooked by philosophy departments.

That person is Jesus.

Cupic participated in the Jesus Seminar at the University of California Berkeley, a group which re-examined Jesus' actual sayings.

Now he's written Jesus and philosophy, in which he argues that the New Testament gives a misleading

view of Jesus's philosophy.

The real Jesus, according to Cupit, was a great moralist and a radical humanist who believed

morality came not from a set of rules set down by God, but from humans themselves.

Don't keep it. Welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you and glad to be here.

We're going to be talking about Jesus as a philosopher.

Now why should we even think of Jesus as a philosopher?

Because he's perhaps the most influential moralist who ever lived, but because he so quickly acquired supernatural status and was deified, he's never been

taken seriously as a thinker. His teaching became corrupted by a huge amount of additional

material included within the tradition and it's not

been possible to see him clearly until modern critical scholarship gave us better reconstructions

of his teaching.

Basically what you argue in your book is that gave us better reconstructions of his teaching.

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