Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this live lecture, John Hamer of Toronto Centre Place will extract and evaluate the ethical teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as distinct from his overtly religious teachings and the Christian understanding of Jesus as the Christ. While prophets in the Biblical tradition attempted to persuade by invoking divine authority, “thus says the Lord,” Jesus more frequently taught by analogy and example, similar to the methods of contemporary sages and philosophers. As we distill Jesus’ ethics, we will compare them with other ethical systems of the era.
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In this live lecture, John Hamer of Toronto Centre Place will extract and evaluate the ethical teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as distinct from his overtly religious teachings and the Christian understanding of Jesus as the Christ. While prophets in the Biblical tradition attempted to persuade by invoking divine authority, “thus says the Lord,” Jesus more frequently taught by analogy and example, similar to the methods of contemporary sages and philosophers. As we distill Jesus’ ethics, we will compare them with other ethical systems of the era.
Join the livestream to participate in the discussion and to ask questions to our lecturer during the Q&A.
📚 Browse our catalogue of free lectures at centreplace.ca/lectures
Your generous support allows us to offer these lectures at no cost. Please consider a making donation (tax deductible in the US and Canada):
❤️ centreplace.ca/donate ️
#lecture #christianity #judaism #bible #biblestudy
