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How Jesus Became God
The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.
The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...
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...
The God We Never Knew
Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
How to have faith—or even think about God—without having to stifle modern rational thought is one of the most vital challenges facing many of us today. Marcus J. Borg, author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, traces his personal spiritual journey to the discovery of an...
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.
The Birth of Christianity
Discovering What Happened In the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
In this national bestseller, John Dominic Crossan, the world's leading expert on the historical Jesus, reveals how Christianity emerged in the period following Jesus' death. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Crossan shines new light on the theological and cultural contexts from which the Christian...
God and Empire
Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
At the heart of the Bible is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they are Babylon, Rome, or even America.
From the divine punishment and promise found in Genesis through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, John Dominic Crossan reveals what the Bible has to...
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for personal faith. Now, in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg addresses the yearnings of those who want a fully contemporary faith that welcomes rather than oppresses our...
A People's History of Christianity
The Other Side of the Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“It would be difficult to imagine anyone reading this book without finding some new insight or inspiration, some new and unexpected testimony to the astonishing breadth of Christianity through the centuries.” — Philip Jenkins, author of The Lost History of Christianity
“Interesting,...
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
The Meaning of Jesus
Two Visions
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Was Jesus born of a virgin? Did he know he was the Messiah? Was he bodily resurrected from the dead? Did he intentionally die to redeem humankind? Was Jesus God? Two leading Jesus scholars with widely divergent views go right to the heart of these questions and others, presenting the opposing visions of Jesus that shape our faith today.
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...
The Historical Jesus
The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
"He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the...
Excavating Jesus
Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
The premier historical Jesus scholar joins a brilliant archaeologist to illuminate the life and teaching of Jesus against the background of his world.
There have been phenomenal advances in the historical understanding of Jesus and his world and times, but also huge, lesser known advances in...
Leaving Church
A Memoir of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail….I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be.” —Frederick Buechner, author of Beyond Words
“This is an astonishing book. . . . Taylor is a better writer than...