{"product_id":"9781668025031","title":"Love Thy Stranger: How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMisquoting Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e comes a surprising history of Jesus’s most radical commandment, tracing how this extraordinary duty to love even those who are strangers to us has shaped our world and our lives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the earliest of times up through Greek and Roman antiquity, moral thinkers prioritized generosity toward friends and family. Even Old Testament exhortations to love your neighbor said little about the suffering of those beyond your own community.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Jesus changed all this, introducing a revolutionary new ethical obligation to show love to those you don't know, and might even dislike, through acts of care.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The implications of this radical commandment would be debated, misunderstood, and resisted by early Christians. But by the fifth century, this new “common sense” began to transform the moral conscience—and the politics—of the West.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eLove Thy Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e, New Testament historian Bart D. Ehrman charts the causes and consequences of this ethical revolution up to the present day with his signature sly humor and verve. For in this moment of renewed debate over the limits of the love we owe to others, Jesus’s most demanding commandment remains quite provocative, even two millennia on.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43057220714557,"sku":"9781668025031","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781668025031_p0.jpg?v=1774325661","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781668025031","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}