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Spong, John Shelby was born on June 16, 1931 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of John Shelby and Doolie Boyce (Griffith) Spong.
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Honest Prayer Author: Spong, John Shelby Publisher: St Johann Pr Publication Date: 2001/01/01 Number of Pages: 126 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 00065669
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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.
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( The Easter Moment tells the moving story of Spong's fri...)
The Easter Moment tells the moving story of Spong's friendship with a young physician dying of cancer and how that relationship shed new light on the years of study the author has devoted to the great mystery of what actually happened on that long-ago Easter when the whole history of the human race was changed. Spong is willing to ask tough and searching questions and to come up with startling and significant answers to what happened after death that first fateful Easter, and what that means for thinking about life after death today.
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This thought-provoking guide takes a candid look at the moral issues we face in our daily lives. Using the Ten Commandments as a starting point, the authors bring fresh analysis to such problems as the morality of war in a nuclear age, equitable tax structures, abortion, marital fidelity, capital punishment, care of aging parents, euthanasia, homosexuality, and other contemporary concerns. Beyond Moralism offers solid guidance that is consistent with the Word of God as heard throughout the ages.
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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.
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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.
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This work challenges each point of the traditional Creed and seeks to come to a contemporary understanding of God. Spong's main arguments centre round a wish to re-interpret traditional Christianity as we know it.
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Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality...
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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.
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The leading Christin liberal & pioneer for human rights challenges traditional Christian theology to answer the question of life beyond death. Bishop Spong, author of Jesus for the Non-Religious & Why Christianity Must Change, is known for his controversial ideas & fighting for minority rights. Spong's natural gift for storytelling comes through in this remarkable spiritual journey about his life-long struggle with the questions of God & death in which he reveals how he ultimately came to believe in eternal life. God, says Spong, is ultimately one, & each one ofus is part of that oneness. This is how we live on after death: not in Heaven or Hell, but as part of the eternity that continues after we die beyond the barriers of time & space. The discovery of the eternal can be found within each of us as we go deper into ourselves & by seeking it, by living each day to its fullest, we will come to understand how we live eternally.
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Eternal Life, A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell by John Shelby Spong. Harper,2009
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Spong, John Shelby was born on June 16, 1931 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of John Shelby and Doolie Boyce (Griffith) Spong.
Bachelor of Arts North Carolina, 1952. Master of Divinity, Virginia Theological Seminary, 1955. Doctor of Divinity, St. Paul's College, 1976.
Doctor of Divinity, Virginia Theological Seminary, 1977. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Muhlenburg College, 1998. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Holmes Institute Chicago, 2003.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Lehigh University, 2006. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University North Carolina, 2006. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, 2010.
Ordained to ministry Episcopal Church, 1955, bishop, 1976. Rector St. Joseph's Church, Durham, North Carolina, 1955-1957, Calvary Church, Tarboro, 1957-1965, St. John's Church, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1965-1969, St. Paul's Church, Richmond, 1969-1976. Bishop Diocese of Newark, 1976-2000, retired, 2000.
Member governing body National Episcopalian Church, 1973-1976. Visiting lecturer, Harvard University Division School, 2000, University Pacific, Stockton, California, 2003, Drew University, 2008. Member faculty Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, 1997, 99, 2001, 03, 05, 07.
( The Easter Moment tells the moving story of Spong's fri...)
(John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and Episcopal bisho...)
(Drawing on a lifetime of wisdom, New York Times bestselli...)
( In this boldest book since Rescuing the Bible from Fund...)
(The leading Christin liberal & pioneer for human rights c...)
(This work challenges each point of the traditional Creed ...)
( The Pope Describes the Ancient Traditional Jesus; Bisho...)
(Eternal Life, A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theis...)
( This thought-provoking guide takes a candid look at the...)
(Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity...)
(Jesus for the Non-Religious by Spong, John Shelby [Harper...)
(A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith...)
(In This Study I Found A Lord, a center for my being. Behi...)
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Author: Honest Prayer, 1973, This Hebrew Lord, 1974, Dialogue--In Search of Jewish-Christian Understanding, 1975, Christpower, 1976, The Living Commandments, 1977, The Easter Moment, 1980, Into the Whirlwind: The Future of the Church, 1983, Beyond Moralism, 1986, Survival and Consciousness, 1987, Living in Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality, 1988, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism--A Biship Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture, 1991, Born of a Woman, 1992, Resurrection: Myth or Reality?, 1994, Liberating the Gospels, Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes, 1996, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, 1998, Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love and Equality, 2000, A New Christianity for a New World, 2001, The Sins of Scripture-Exploring the Bible's Texts of Hate to Discover The God of Love, 2005, Jesus for Non Religious, 2007, Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell, 2009. Columnist Beliefnet. Com, 2000-2002, Waterfront Media, since 2002.
Member of Rotary.
Married Joan Lydia Ketner, September 5, 1952 (deceased 1988). Children: Ellen Elizabeth, Mary Katharine, Jaquelin Ketner. Married Christine Mary Bridger, January 1, 1990.