After reading What the Gospels Meant I moved onto Gary Wills next book What Jesus Meant. It is a great book. Of course with any theological book there are many opinions as to what is the right point of view.
Wills a Catholic offers a fairly stinging rebuke to modern religion. Stating that Jesus rebuked religion and the practice of anything that put anyone and anybody between Jesus and anyone who wanted to follow him.
Speaking about Jesus telling us to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, visit the sick and imprisoned as if those people were Jesus himself.
Jesus tells us to hope, believe and love and the greatest of these is love. This book tries to get to the real message of Jesus and take away all the impediments that exist.
Much of modern religion according to Wills is the practice and practices that Jesus himself rebuked when he said My reign is not of this order.
This is a great book
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