Why Christianity Must Change or Die - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Christianity Must Change or Die write by John Shelby Spong. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Why Christianity Must Change or Die available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 book, he sounds a rousing call for a Christianity based on critical thought rather than blind faith, on love rather than judgment, and that focuses on life more than religion.
A New Christianity for a New World
A New Christianity for a New World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New Christianity for a New World write by John Shelby Spong. This book was released on 2009-10-13. A New Christianity for a New World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 avenues and a new vocabulary into the Holy, proposing a Christianity premised upon justice, love, and the rise of a new humanity -- a vision of the power that might be.
Living in Sin?
Living in Sin? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living in Sin? write by John Shelby Spong. This book was released on 1990-02-02. Living in Sin? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is celibacy the only moral alternative to marriage? Should the widowed be allowed to form intimate relationships without remarrying? Should the church receive homosexuals into its community and support committed gay and lesbian relationships? Should congregations publicly and liturgically witness and affirm divorces? Should the church's moral standards continue to be set by patriarchal males? Should women be consecrated bishops? Bishop Spong proposes a pastoral response based on scripture and history to the changing realities of the modern world. He calls for a moral vision to empower the church with inclusive teaching about equal, loving, nonexploitative relationships.
Why Christianity Must Change or Die
Why Christianity Must Change or Die - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Christianity Must Change or Die write by John Shelby Spong. This book was released on 1998-04-21. Why Christianity Must Change or Die available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New Creed for a New Millennium, from an Outspoken Advocate for a Christianity that is true to Jesus. Building on his bestselling books Resucing the Bible from Fundamentalism and Living in Sin?, Bishop Spong explores the future of ethics, prayer, and Christianity itself. His manifesto is both the summation of his life's work and a guide for every reader searching for a reasoned, just, and loving faith.
Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy
Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy write by John Shelby Spong. This book was released on 2016-02-16. Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Jewish followers of Jesus. A man who has consciously and deliberately walked the path of Christ, John Shelby Spong has lived his entire life inside the Christian Church. In this profound and considered work, he offers a radical new way to look at the gospels today as he shows just how deeply Jewish the Christian Gospels are and how much they reflect the Jewish scriptures, history, and patterns of worship. Pulling back the layers of a long-standing Gentile ignorance, he reveals how the church’s literal reading of the Bible is so far removed from these original Jewish authors’ intent that it is an act of heresy. Using the Gospel of Matthew as a guide, Spong explores the Bible’s literary and liturgical roots—its grounding in Jewish culture, symbols, icons, and storytelling tradition—to explain how the events of Jesus’ life, including the virgin birth, the miracles, the details of the passion story, and the resurrection and ascension, would have been understood by both the Jewish authors of the various gospels and by the Jewish audiences for which they were originally written. Spong makes clear that it was only after the church became fully Gentile that readers of the Gospels took these stories to be factual, distorting their original meaning. In Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy, Spong illuminates the gospels as never before and provides a better blueprint for the future than where the church’s leaden and heretical reading of the story of Jesus has led us—one that allows the faithful to live inside the Christian story in the modern world.
