Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
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...
How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian
Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The acclaimed Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus and God & Empire—“the greatest New Testament scholar of our generation” (John Shelby Spong) —grapples with Scripture’s two conflicting visions of Jesus and God, one of a loving God, and one of a vengeful God, and explains...
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...
by John Shelby Spong
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The Pope Describes the Ancient Traditional Jesus; Bishop Spong Brings Us a Jesus Modern People Can Be Inspired By
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...
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'...
The Grail Cypher
The secrets of Arthurian history revealed
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
*** The Grail Cypher ***
A radical reassessment of Arthurian history
by Ralph Ellis
• The history of King Arthur was modeled upon the life of Jesus.
• Jesus-Arthur had twelve disciple-knights of the Round (Last Supper) Table.
• The son of Jesus-Arthur was the king of Palmyra in Syria.
This...
King Jesus
King of Judaea, Prince of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
*** The biblical King Jesus was King Izas of Adiabene - the well-known leader of the Jewish Revolt. ***
This is most comprehensive and revolutionary reappraisal of biblical history. This book explains every facet and every character within the New Testament narrative, and places them within...
The Coming of Armageddon
History's Longest Night
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
The name "Armageddon" originates in the Biblical "Book of Revelations" (16:16). For nearly 2000 years scholars were unable to agree about what it means. That has now changed. Recently the world entered a time of crisis with the global order disrupted by dangerous, financial speculation; the spread of...
Laying Down the Sword
Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Philip Jenkins delivers a fearless examination of the darkand violent verses of the Bible—and a call for us to read them anew in pursuitof a richer, more honest faith. From “one of America’s best scholars ofreligion” (The Economist), this daring exploration of the Scripture’smost difficult...
The Day the Revolution Began
Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The renowned scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author widely considered to be the heir to C. S. Lewis contemplates the central event at the heart of the Christian faith—Jesus’ crucifixion—arguing that the Protestant Reformation did not go far enough in transforming our understanding...
Paul and the Faithfulness of God
Two book set
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This highly anticipated two-book fourth volume in N. T. Wright’s magisterial series, Christian Origins and the Question of God, is destined to become the standard reference point on the subject for all serious students of the Bible and theology. The mature summation of a lifetime’s study, this...
The Lotus and the Cross
Jesus Talks with Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Popular scholar Ravi Zacharias sets a captivating scene between Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha in the first book of the Conversations with Jesus series.
Have you ever wondered what Jesus would say to Mohammed? Or Buddha? Or Oscar Wilde? Maybe you have a friend who practices another religion...
by Eric S. Christianson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Over the centuries, Ecclesiastes has influenced numerous and diverse aspects of life and thought. Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries assesses the effects of the book on the culture of the various times in religious, artistic, and social contexts.
Presents an innovative, reception history approach...