John Alderdice

The Antipatriarchal Jesus

Philosophy

“In a time when many no longer identify with formal religion but want something spiritual, and the rules-based international order is dissolving before our frightened eyes, Richards avoids certitude about things of which we cannot be certain in favor of a universal relatedness on which we can confidently depend. He returns us to an inspirational gospel ethic of love, largely obscured since Constantine, and levers open ‘the crack . . . where the light gets.’”