Thomas Jefferson

“The Most Sublime and Benevolent Code of Morals Which Has Ever Been Offered to Man”: Debates on The Jefferson Bible

The article discusses the origins, content, and meaning of two editions of the New Testament constructed by Thomas Jefferson in 1804 and 1819. He had launched these editions in accordance with his views on the interrelatedness of religion and reason, of the freedom of conscience, and the right to interpret the New Testament through the prism of one’s own life experience.