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''Not Paul, but Jesus'' saw Bentham compare the teachings of Paul with those of Jesus, and argue that the religion of both men differed significantly. Bentham suggested that Jesus was a hedonist, while was an ascetic who sought to gain control of the emerging Christian movement to gain the power, wealth and reputation he believed it would bring him. Bentham notes, for example, that Jesus did not condemn at any point the sexual activities of the prostitute Mary Magdalene, and nor did he condemn homosexuality. | ''Not Paul, but Jesus'' saw Bentham compare the teachings of Paul with those of Jesus, and argue that the religion of both men differed significantly. Bentham suggested that Jesus was a hedonist, while was an ascetic who sought to gain control of the emerging Christian movement to gain the power, wealth and reputation he believed it would bring him. Bentham notes, for example, that Jesus did not condemn at any point the sexual activities of the prostitute Mary Magdalene, and nor did he condemn homosexuality. | ||
To read more about Bentham's religious writings, see chapter six of [http://www.continuumbooks.com/Books/detail.aspx?ReturnURL=/Search/default.aspx&CountryID=1&ImprintID=2&BookID=130432 Philip Schofield, ''Bentham: A Guide for the Perplexed'' (London, 2009)], and [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/news/bentham_selected_writings Stephen Engelmann, ''Jeremy Bentham: Selected Writings'' (Yale, 2011). | To read more about Bentham's religious writings, see chapter six of [http://www.continuumbooks.com/Books/detail.aspx?ReturnURL=/Search/default.aspx&CountryID=1&ImprintID=2&BookID=130432 Philip Schofield, ''Bentham: A Guide for the Perplexed'' (London, 2009)], and [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/news/bentham_selected_writings Stephen Engelmann, ''Jeremy Bentham: Selected Writings'' (Yale, 2011)]. | ||
Finally, three folios at the end of the box contain material relating to Bentham's Constitutional Code. | Finally, three folios at the end of the box contain material relating to Bentham's Constitutional Code. | ||
Box 139 contains the manuscript material upon which was based Bentham's 1823 publication, Not Paul, but Jesus (this was published under the pseudonym 'Gamaliel Smith'. Bentham had published two other works on religion - Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined (1817, in his own name), and An Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion on the Temporal Happiness of Mankind (1822, as Philip Beauchamp); the former was an attack on the Church of England, focusing on its role in education; while the latter argued that a belief in an afterlife governed by an omniscient God resulted in a great deal of misery in the present life.
Not Paul, but Jesus saw Bentham compare the teachings of Paul with those of Jesus, and argue that the religion of both men differed significantly. Bentham suggested that Jesus was a hedonist, while was an ascetic who sought to gain control of the emerging Christian movement to gain the power, wealth and reputation he believed it would bring him. Bentham notes, for example, that Jesus did not condemn at any point the sexual activities of the prostitute Mary Magdalene, and nor did he condemn homosexuality.
To read more about Bentham's religious writings, see chapter six of Philip Schofield, Bentham: A Guide for the Perplexed (London, 2009), and Stephen Engelmann, Jeremy Bentham: Selected Writings (Yale, 2011).
Finally, three folios at the end of the box contain material relating to Bentham's Constitutional Code.
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