What Jesus Meant by Garry Wills

Author:Garry Wills
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2002-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

4. Against Religion

THE MOST STRIKING, resented, and dangerous of Jesus’ activities was his opposition to religion as that was understood in his time. This is what led to his death. Religion killed him. He opposed all formalisms in worship—ritual purifications, sacrifice, external prayer and fasting norms, the Sabbath and eating codes, priesthoods, the Temple, and the rules of Sadducees, Pharisees, and Scribes. He called authentic only the religion of the heart, the inner purity and union with the Father that he had achieved and was able to share with his followers:

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