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Jesus for the Non-religious

by John Shelby Spong

  • Paperback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • 13.7 x 20.4 x 2.2 cm

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Writing from his prison cell in Nazi Germany in 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologian, sketched a vision of what he called 'religionless Christianity'. In this book, John Shelby Spong puts flesh onto the bare bones of Bonhoeffer's radical thought. Spong questions the historicity of the ideas that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, that he had twelve disciples, and that the miracle stories were meant to be descriptions of supernatural events. He also speaks directly to those contemporary critics of Christianity who call God a 'delusion' and who write letters to a 'Christian nation' and describe how Christianity has become evil and destructive. Spong invites his readers to look at Jesus through the lens of both the Jewish scriptures and the liturgical life of the first-century synagogue, dismissing the dispute about Jesus' nature that consumed the church's leadership for the first 500 years of Christian history as irrelevant. Traditional Christians who still cling to dated concepts of the past will not be comfortable with this book; however, skeptics of the twenty-first century will not be quite so certain that dismissing Jesus is the correct pathway to walk.
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  • Author

    John Shelby Spong

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    HarperCollins Publishers

  • Published

    March 2009

  • Weight

    264g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    13.7 x 20.4 x 2.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780060778415

  • ISBN-10

    0060778415

  • Eden Code

    1919034

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