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Book review: Love Thy Stranger: How Jesus transformed our moral conscience by Bart D. Ehrman

Book review: Love Thy Stranger: How Jesus transformed our moral conscience by Bart D. Ehrman

Thursday, July 9, 2026
NO! NOT “love thy neighbour”; for this instinct is already to some extent engrained in human nature. One of the author’s first theses is that altruism (the instinct to help others) in more distant cases of need stems from Jesus. So, for that matte...