John Shelby Spong (1931–2021)
Auteur van Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture
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Scholar, author and bishop, John Shelby Spong was born in 1931 in Charlotte, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1952 and received his Master of Divinity degree in 1955 from the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia. That seminary and toon meer St. Paul's College have both conferred on him honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees. Ordained in 1955, he is now bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Newark, New Jersey. As the most-published member of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States, Spong is the author of 14 books and more than 90 articles, including Honest Prayer (1973), Dialogue ? In Search of Jewish-Christian Umderstanding (1975), The Living Commandments (1977), Into the Whirlwind: The Future of the Church (1983), Living in Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality (1988), Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture (1991), and Resurrection: Myth or Reality? (1994). With an active interest in football, basketball and baseball, Bishop Spong was at one time a play-by-play announcer for radio stations in Tarboro, North Carolina, and Lynchburg, Virginia. In addition, he served as sports editor for The Daily Southerner in Tarboro. Bishop Spong resides in Morristown, New Jersey. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture (1991) 1,198 exemplaren
Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile: A New Reformation of the Church's Faith and… (1998) 1,166 exemplaren
A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born (2001) 706 exemplaren
The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love (2005) — Auteur — 603 exemplaren
Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Virgin Birth and the Treatment of Women by a Male-Dominated Church (1992) 433 exemplaren
Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality (2000) — Auteur — 401 exemplaren
Resurrection: Myth or Reality? A Bishop's Search for the Origins of Christianity (1994) 387 exemplaren
Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell (2009) — Auteur — 272 exemplaren
Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today (2018) 117 exemplaren
Consciousness and Survival: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the Possibility of Life Beyond Biological Death.… (1987) 5 exemplaren
Un cristianesimo nuovo per un mondo nuovo. Perché muore la fede tradizionale e come ne nasce una nuova (2010) 3 exemplaren
Perché il cristianesimo deve cambiare o morire. La nuova riforma della fede e della prassi della Chiesa (2019) 2 exemplaren
Plenary Talk at Friends General Conference (CD) 2 exemplaren
Living the Questions 1 exemplaar
Reflections On An Ancient Text - The Bible 1 exemplaar
Examining the Meaning of the Resurrection (Together in Hope - Resources for Christian Faith Today Book 5) (2012) 1 exemplaar
Religion & Life Lecture Series 2008 1 exemplaar
Did Christians Invent Judas? (VHS) 1 exemplaar
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- University of North Carolina (BA|1952)
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- ACLU of New Jersey Award (1988)
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Resurrection: Myth or Reality? : A Bishop's Search… door John Shelby Spong
"The key to understanding [the Resurrection] . . . is recognizing that the Early Christians were Jewish by background and deeply shaped by their formative Jewish traditions. With a close comparison of the New Testament witness to antecedents in the Hebrew scriptures, Spong argues convincingly that many of the details of Jesus' life and his crucifixion are not historical, but derive instead from the Jewish tradition of Midrash, expository teachings that employ the retelling of sacred stories from the Jewish past in order to understand the powerful experience of God in the Jewish present." from book jacket… (meer)
Is it possible for a person living today to believe that at a particular moment in 2000 years ago Jesus of Nazareth broke the power of death? Can one assert today, with any hope of credibility, that there is life after death? John Shelby Spong, in this his 6th book, answers a resounding yes to all these questions.
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