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Jesus the Great Philosopher: Rediscovering the Wisdom Needed for the Good Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many of us tend to live as though Jesus represents the “spiritual part” of our lives. We don’t clearly see how he relates to the rest of our experiences, desires, and habits. How can Jesus, the Bible, and Christianity become more than a compartmentalized part of our lives? Highly regarded New Testament scholar and popular teacher Jonathan Pennington argues that we need to recover the lost...

There are plenty of great books available for this purpose, and such survey is standard fare for philosophy courses in college or on YouTube. Nor would it be beneficial to survey all the disagreements between various important philosophers. We want to ask a bigger question, not just, What happened in the history of philosophy? but rather, What is ancient philosophy?5 My desire is not to present a potted history of philosophy but to get at the heart of what ancient philosophy was all about. Why was
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