The Political Life of Jesus Christ with David Lloyd Dusenbury
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The Political Jesus for Kant
Kant believed that Jesus did seek to affect what he called a religious revolution in first century Judea. A rational religion is a universal religion because reason pertains to the entirety of God or nature, says Kant. So even though Jesus was issuing a kind of particular call to his people at a given time and place, the call itself was universal. But this call was mistaken by the political regimes in play in Judea as a political threat, and therefore Jesus was put to death.
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