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Jesus for the Non-Religious (Paperback): John Shelby Spong Jesus for the Non-Religious (Paperback)
John Shelby Spong
R463 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The controversial bishop and moral activist attempts to wrestle Jesus from the restrictive and dogmatic binds of religion so he can become the hero the world needs.

This Hebrew Lord - A Bishop's Search For The Authentic Jesus (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): John Shelby Spong This Hebrew Lord - A Bishop's Search For The Authentic Jesus (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
John Shelby Spong
R425 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In This Study I Found A Lord, a center for my being. Behind the supernatural framework of the first century...I discover a life I wanted to know; a life that possessed a power I wanted to possess; a freedom, a wholeness for which I had yearned for years."Illuminating the "figure who stands at the center of all the Christian Church is," John Shelby Spong explores Jesus under the light of the Hebrew tradition into which he was born. Candid, personal, and soundly argued, this is Spong's spiritual and intellectual pilgrimaged to the Christ he discovered in Jesus of Nazareth.

The Fourth Gospel - Tales Of A Jewish Mystic (Paperback): John Shelby Spong The Fourth Gospel - Tales Of A Jewish Mystic (Paperback)
John Shelby Spong
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Why Christianity Must Change or Die - A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile (Paperback, Reprint): Bishop John Shelby Spong Why Christianity Must Change or Die - A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile (Paperback, Reprint)
Bishop John Shelby Spong
R396 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Sins Of Scripture - Exposing The Bible's Texts Of Hate To Reveal The God Of Love (Paperback): John Shelby Spong The Sins Of Scripture - Exposing The Bible's Texts Of Hate To Reveal The God Of Love (Paperback)
John Shelby Spong
R466 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Bible contains many passages that believers and nonbelievers alike would recognize as appalling theology. Whether these texts are used to discriminate, oppress, or condemn, they distort the truth of Christianity and cast doubt upon the love of God. Now, legendary Episcopal bishop and advocate for liberal Christianity John Shelby Spong addresses these passages, shattering our misconceptions and delivering a new vision of how Christians today can use the Bible.

Biblical Literalism - A Gentile Heresy: A Journey into a New Christianity Through the Doorway of Matthew's Gospel... Biblical Literalism - A Gentile Heresy: A Journey into a New Christianity Through the Doorway of Matthew's Gospel (Paperback)
John Shelby Spong
R452 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unbelievable (Hardcover): John Shelby Spong Unbelievable (Hardcover)
John Shelby Spong
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Liberating the Gospels - Reading the Bible With Jewish Eyes (Paperback, New ed): John Shelby Spong Liberating the Gospels - Reading the Bible With Jewish Eyes (Paperback, New ed)
John Shelby Spong
R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 -- are not literally true. He offers convincing evidence that the Gospels are a collection of Jewish midrashic stories written to convey the significance of Jesus. This remarkable discovery brings us closer to how Jesus was really understood in his day and should be in ours.

God in Us - A Case for Christian Humanism (Paperback, 2nd Enlarged edition): Anthony Freeman God in Us - A Case for Christian Humanism (Paperback, 2nd Enlarged edition)
Anthony Freeman; Foreword by John Shelby Spong
R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This text is a radical representation of the Christian faith for the 21st century. Following the example of the Old Testament prophets and the first-century Christians it overturns received ideas about God. God is not an invisible person "out there" somewhere, but lives in the human heart and mind as "the sum of all our values and ideals" guiding and inspiring our lives.

Here I Stand (Paperback): John Shelby Spong Here I Stand (Paperback)
John Shelby Spong
R531 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R67 (13%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The legendary Episcopal Bishop tells of his lifelong struggle to champion an authentic christianity based on love, not hatred.

A New Christianity for a New World (Paperback, 1st ed): John Shelby Spong A New Christianity for a New World (Paperback, 1st ed)
John Shelby Spong
R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Antidote to Toxic Christianity

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.

Unbelievable (Paperback): John Shelby Spong Unbelievable (Paperback)
John Shelby Spong
R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Living in Sin? (Paperback, Reprint): John Shelby Spong Living in Sin? (Paperback, Reprint)
John Shelby Spong
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism - A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture (Paperback, Reprint): John Shelby Spong Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism - A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture (Paperback, Reprint)
John Shelby Spong
R458 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Fourth Gospel - Tales of a Jewish Mystic (Hardcover): John Shelby Spong The Fourth Gospel - Tales of a Jewish Mystic (Hardcover)
John Shelby Spong
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 retelling of the events in Jesus' life through the medium of fictional characters, from Nicodemus and Lazarus to the "Beloved Disciple." The Fourth Gospel was designed first to place Jesus into the context of the Jewish scriptures, then to place him into the worship patterns of the synagogue and finally to allow him to be viewed through the lens of a popular form of first-century Jewish mysticism.

The result of this intriguing study is not only to recapture the original message of this gospel, but also to provide us today with a radical new dimension to the claim that in the humanity of Jesus the reality of God has been met and engaged.

Eternal Life: A New Vision (Paperback): John Shelby Spong Eternal Life: A New Vision (Paperback)
John Shelby Spong
R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bishop John Shelby Spong, author of Jesus for the Non-Religious, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Sins of Scripture, and many other books, is known for his controversial ideas and fighting for minority rights. In Eternal Life: A New Vision, a remarkable spiritual journey about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he came to a new conviction about eternal life. God, says spong, is ultimately one, and each of us is part of that oneness. We do not live on after death as children who have been rewarded with heaven or punished with hell but as part of the life and being of God, sharing in God's eternity, which is beyond the barriers of time and space. spong argues that the discovery of the eternal can be found within each of us if we go deeply into ourselves, transcend our limits and become fully human. By seeking God within, by living each day to its fullest, we will come to understand how we live eternally.

Always compelling and controversial, Spong, the leading Christian liberal and pioneer for human rights, wrestles with the question that all of us will ultimately face. In his final book, Spong takes us beyond religion and even beyond Christianity until he arrives at the affirmation that the fully realized human life empties into and participates in the eternity of God. The pathway into God turns out to be both a pathway into ourselves and a doorway into eternal life. To Job's question "If a man (or a woman) dies, will he (or she) live again?" he gives his answer as a ringing yes

Resurrection (Paperback, New edition): John Shelby Spong Resurrection (Paperback, New edition)
John Shelby Spong
R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A daring examination of the foundational event
of Christianity, and an inspiring vision for
reconciliation between Jews and Christians.

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' eyes to the reality of God and the meaning of Jesus of Nazareth. Spong traces the Christian origins of anti-Semitism to the Church's fabrication of the ultimate Jewish scapegoat, Judas Iscariot. He affirms the inclusiveness of the Christian message and emphasizes the necessity of mutual integrity and respect among Christians and Jews.

Born of a Woman (Paperback): John Shelby Spong Born of a Woman (Paperback)
John Shelby Spong
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Once and Future Faith (Paperback): Robert W Funk, Karen Armstrong, Don Cupitt, Arthur J Dewey, Lloyd Geering, Roy W. Hoover,... Once and Future Faith (Paperback)
Robert W Funk, Karen Armstrong, Don Cupitt, Arthur J Dewey, Lloyd Geering, …
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many ideas once thought to be foundational to Christianity are now known to be false due to scientific discoveries regarding the nature of the universe and historical findings about how Christianity began. Is Christianity doomed to irrelevance or even extinction? How might Christianity reinvent itself so that it can address the real concerns of people in today's world? This collection of essays from such leading thinkers as Karen Armstrong and John Shelby Spong addresses questions such as life after death, the meaning of God, apocalypticism, and the significance of Jesus' death. Contributors: Karen Armstrong, Don Cupitt, Arthur J. Dewey, Robert W. Funk, Lloyd Geering, Roy W. Hoover, Robert J. Miller, Stephen J. Patterson, Bernard Brandon Scott, John Shelby Spong

Biblical Literalism - A Gentile Heresy (Hardcover): John Shelby Spong Biblical Literalism - A Gentile Heresy (Hardcover)
John Shelby Spong
R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Bishop's Voice - Selected Essays (Paperback, New Ed): John Shelby Spong The Bishop's Voice - Selected Essays (Paperback, New Ed)
John Shelby Spong; Compiled by Christine M. Spong
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For twenty years, Episcopal Bishop John Spong, wrote a monthly column in his diocesan newspaper, The Voice. Throughout the years, he used the paper as a pulpit for his progressive views about faith, dogma, tradition, and human rights. Compiled and edited by his daughter, Christine, this collection serves as an excellent introduction to Spong's breathtaking breadth of interest and capability as one of the century's leading voices for religious and human inclusivity.

Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World (Paperback): John Shelby Spong Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World (Paperback)
John Shelby Spong
R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 reveals the crucial truths that have long been kept hidden from the public eye, but also explores what the history of the Bible can teach us about reading its stories today and living our lives for tomorrow. Sarah Sentilles, author of Breaking Up With God: A Love Story, applauds John Shelby Spong's Reclaiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World, writing that "pulsing beneath his brilliant, thought-provoking, passionate book is this question: can Christianity survive the education of its believers?...A question Bishop Spong answers with a resounding yes."

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