The Antipatriarchal Jesus

Many—both religious and nonreligious— find Jesus one of the most compelling figures in human history. Richards came to his view of Jesus from an outsider’s perspective, as a gay and nonreligious man, inspired by the psychoanalyst Winnicott’s understanding of both psychoanalysis and Jesus and its illumination of his own struggles to equal love. Many may find in this book how and why Jesus so moves them, and why—given the hegemonic power of patriarchy in human history and in the life and time...