Abstract

Introduction I : Who is this book for? -- Introduction II : How is Jesus a philosopher? -- Introduction III : What are the four great questions of philosophy? -- 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" -- Jesus' epistemology (How do we know what is real?) -- Jesus' anthropology (Who are we who know what is real?) -- Jesus' ethics (What should we be to be more real?). Christian personalism : seeing "Jesus only" ; The overcoming of legalism ; The refutation of relativism ; The secret of moral success ; Jesus and sex ; Jesus and social ethics : solidarity ; Jesus and politics : is he left or right? -- Conclusion.