John Shelby Spong: 17 books
Unbelievable
Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Five hundred years after Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses ushered in the Reformation, bestselling author and controversial bishop and teacher John Shelby Spong delivers twelve forward-thinking theses to spark a new reformation to reinvigorate Christianity and ensure its future.
At the...
by John Shelby Spong
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World, bishop and social activist John Shelby Spong argues that 200 years of biblical scholarship has been withheld from lay Christians. In this brilliant follow-up to Spong’s previous books Eternal Life and Jesus for the Non-Religious, Spong not only...
by John Shelby Spong
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
From the bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: John Shelby Spong's original groundbreaking classic, now newly revised, reveals the Jesus "behind the language of myth, magic, and superstition."
"In this study I found a Lord, a center for my being. Behind...
Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy
A Journey into a New Christianity Through the Doorway of Matthew's Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A global and pioneering leader of progressive Christianity and the bestselling author of Why Christianity Must Change or Die and Eternal Life explains why a literal reading of the Gospels is actually heretical, and how this mistaken notion only entered the church once Gentiles had pushed out all the...
The Sins of Scripture
Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the history of the Western World, the Bible has been a perpetual source of inspiration and guidance for countless Christians. However, this Bible has also left a trail of pain. It is undeniable that the Bible is not always used for good. Sometimes the Bible can seem overtly evil. Sometimes its...
A New Christianity for a New World
Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In his bestselling book Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Bishop John Shelby Spong described the toxins that are poisoning the Church. Now he offers the antidote, calling Christians everywhere into a new and radical reformation for a new age. Spong looks beyond traditional boundaries to open new...
Liberating the Gospels
Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this boldest book since Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Bishop John Shelby Spong offers a compelling view of the Gospels as thoroughly Jewish tests.Spong powerfully argues that many of the key Gospel accounts of events in the life of Jesus—from the stories of his birth to his physical...
Eternal Life: A New Vision
Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Drawing on a lifetime of wisdom, New York Times bestselling author and controversial religious leader John Shelby Spong continues to challenge traditional Christian theology in Eternal Life: A New Vision. In this remarkable spiritual autobiography about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he ultimately came to believe in eternal life.
by John Shelby Spong
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and popular proponent of a modern, scholarly and authentic Christianity, argues that this last gospel to be written was misinterpreted by the framers of the fourth-century creeds to be a literal account of the life of Jesus when in fact it is a literary, interpretive...
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism
A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of Script
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
By popular demand—study guides to two of Bishop John Shelby Spong's bestselling and controversial works, including questions, reflections, and summaries for group and individual use.
Why Christianity Must Change or Die
A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
An important and respected voice for liberal American Christianity for the past twenty years, Bishop John Shelby Spong integrates his often controversial stands on the Bible, Jesus, theism, and morality into an intelligible creed that speaks to today's thinking Christian. In this compelling and heartfelt...
by John Shelby Spong
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and Episcopal bishop of Newark, NJ, challenges the doctrine of the virgin birth, tracing its development in the early Christian church and revealing its legacy in our contemporary attitudes toward women and female sexuality.
Resurrection
Myth or Reality?
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Using approaches from the Hebrew interpretive tradition to discern the actual events surrounging Jesus' death, Bishop Spong questions the hitorical validity of literal narrative concerned the Ressurection. He asserts that the resurrection story was born in an experience that opened the disciples'...
by John Shelby Spong
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
The Easter Moment tells the moving story of Spong's friendship with a young physician dying of cancer and how that relationship shed new light on the years of study the author has devoted to the great mystery of what actually happened on that long-ago Easter when the whole history of the human race...
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