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Best known for having declared the death of God, Nietzsche was a thinker thoroughly absorbed in the Christian tradition in which he was born and raised. Yet while the atheist Nietzsche is well known, the pious Nietzsche is seldom recognised and rarely understood.Redeeming Nietzsche examines the residual theologian in the most vociferous of atheists. Fraser demonstrates that although Nietzsche rejected God, he remained obsessed with the question of human salvation. Examining his accounts of art, truth, morality and eternity, Nietzsche's thought is revealed to be a series of experiments in redemption.
When Christine Morgan got Richard Coles, Kate Bottley and Giles
Fraser together in a studio, all she had to do was plug them in and
let them go. The dynamic between the three meant there were moments
of real connection and poignancy alongside the laughter: 'I'm
exaggerating for comic effect,' Kate announced after one
particularly outrageous anecdote, 'It's one of the reasons we're
here.' Each realized in the course of conversation that they
favoured one of the three rites of passage: Giles: Baptism because
you enter into the body of Christ Richard: Funerals because they
take you into the mystery of God Kate: Weddings because you get to
wear nice shoes Engagingly introduced by Christine Morgan, the book
ends with the profoundly moving episode (recorded remotely in the
three vicars' homes) that was broadcast on Easter Sunday 2020, to a
world in crisis.
Presents a compilation of the authors' writing for various media
and covers a range of subjects from Christmas and Easter to
atheism, sex and death.
'Absorbing, fascinating, arresting' The Observer 'Intensely moving,
luminous and rather magnificent' The Times It was one of the most
startling moments in the history of the City of London. In 2011,
the Occupy movement set up camp around St Paul's Cathedral. Giles
Fraser, who was Canon Chancellor of the Cathedral, gave them his
support. It ended in disaster. This remarkable book is the story of
the personal crisis that followed, and its surprising consequences.
Finding himself caught between the protesters, the church and the
City of London, Fraser resigned, and was plunged into depression.
As his life fell apart and he battled with ideas of suicide, he
found himself by chance one day in Liverpool, outside the great
Victorian synagogue once presided over by a distant ancestor.
Suddenly Fraser realized that there was a great deal he did not
know about himself, about his relatives and about his Jewish roots.
Fraser calls this book 'a ghost story' and it is a book which is
indeed filled with many ghosts. His search into his family's Jewish
past makes this both a fascinating personal story and a wonderful
piece of writing about theology. It is a book about the deepest,
most ancient elements in our culture, and the most modern and
intimate. It is throughout alive with the charm and intellectual
vigour which have made Fraser such an admired and controversial
preacher and broadcaster.
How do you survive when a lucky break turns out to be the worst
thing that ever happened to you? Nick Hunter is about to find out.
He made a colossal mistake when he was barely out of school and now
his whole world is in jeopardy as he races against the clock to
save his family and his business from disaster. In 1979 Hunter
heads to London, and a squat in Notting Hill, with dreams of
musical success. With his fellow squatters he forms a band and they
record four short songs before tensions and misunderstandings drive
them apart. Nick lies and tells the record company the songs are
all his own work. Six years later one of the songs, Let's Fly, is
picked as the soundtrack to a blockbuster movie and Nick makes a
fortune in royalties. In 2017, Nick, his wife Sam and daughter Jen
now live in the house opposite his old squat. His successful gig
economy, online food business is about to go public, but someone is
on his back. Nick is in massive debt and the heavies are closing
in. Disasters are befalling the business just at the wrong time.
Then Sam is snatched and, with a price on her head, Nick must come
up with the money or lose her. With his life and family on the line
- and just days to play with - Nick has to stop whoever is
destroying his life and come clean with those he loves in order to
hang on to everything he holds dear.
In this new presentation of the Gospels, Terry Eagleton makes a
powerful and provocative argument for Jesus Christ as a social,
political and moral radical, a friend of anti-imperialists,
outcasts and marginals, a champion of the poor, the sick and
immigrants, and as an opponent of the rich, religious hierarchs,
and hypocrites everywhere--in other words, as a figure akin to
revolutionaries like Robespierre, Marx, and Che Guevara.
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