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Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity
 
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Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity (Paperback)

by Keith Akers (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Lantern Books,US (1 Feb 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1930051263
  • ISBN-13: 978-1930051263
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This portrait of Jesus concentrates on ethics, as opposed to theology, claiming Jesus' preaching was first and foremost about simple living, pacifism, and vegetarianism, and that he had never intended to create a new religion. Jewish Christianity has a history which can be traced from the Essenes and John the Baptist, through Jesus, to its disappearance into Islamic mysticism in the 7th or 8th century. The author claims that gentile Christian groups are the spiritual ancestors of modern Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox churches, and that the true followers of Jesus are his earliest followers - the Jewish Christians. He argues that only by understanding this mysterious and misunderstood strand of early Christianity can we get to the heart of the radical message of Jesus of Nazareth.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stimulating and respectable despite flaws, 30 Mar 2008
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Clearly Akers is no great scholar and has his personal biases, but I think his effort is mainly refreshing and helpful. Concerning the Bible, Akers emphasizes that Jesus presented himself as a Jewish reformer, who viewed the Bible critically. For Jesus, real faith required discerning a primary message among the Bible's diverse accounts of wars, visions, laws and traditions. He made selective judgements of what to emphasize or ignore, which made him so highly controversial to the Pharisaical legalists or defenders of scriptural inerrancy in his time.

Akers also claims that Jesus was a vegetarian. I was not convinced either that this was true, or that it was important to the early Jewish Chrisitans. But related to this, Akers points out something which does seem important: Jesus opposition to animal sacrifice. And here, Akers emphasizes a side of the Gospel accounts that might shock many later Christians -- that Jesus was almost violently opposed to making his religion a cult of sacrifice for sin. Like John the Baptist he believed in baptism as a rite of repentance and renewal, but not in sacrifice or killing to buy freedom from guilt.

For his well presented arguments on how Jesus took the Bible, and how he viewed the whole notion of sacrifice, I think Akers' book would be stimulating for any Christian study or discussion group.
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