Eternal Life

A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven And Hell

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Bishop Spong 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.

HarperOne 2010 288PP. Paper

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Eternal Life -hardback

A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven And Hell

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Bishop John Shelby Spong 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.

HarperOne 2009 288 PP. Cloth

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Jesus For The Non-religious - Paperback

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Spong invites his readers to look at Jesus through the lens of both the Jewish scriptures and the liturgical life of first-century synagogues. He proposes we understand Christ as the ultimate dimension of a fulfilled humanity. "Traditional Christians" may not be comfortable with this book; however after reading it skeptics may not be ale to dismiss Jesus so easily. This could be the book that finally brings the pious and the secular into a meaningful dialogue, opening the door to a living Christianity in the post-Christian world.

HarperOne 2008 336 PP. Paper

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A New Christianity For A New World

Why A Traditional Faith Is Dying And How A New Faith Is Being Born

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Religious reformer Spong builds upon the program he initiated in Why Christianity Must Change or Die as he outlines what he believes is an authentic faith for a new millennium.

HarperSan Francisco 2002 304 PP. Paper

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Rescuing The Bible From Fundamentalism

A Bishop Rethinks The Meaning Of Scripture

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Spong lifts the Bible out of the prejudices and cultural biases that have justified wars and slavery in its name, and opens up the Bible's message of hope for all.

HarperSF 1992 267 PP. Paper

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Sins Of Scripture

Exposing The Bibles Texts Of Hate To Reveal The God Of Love

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Bishop John Shelby Spong boldly approaches those texts that have been used through history to justify the denigration or persecution of others while carrying with them the implied and imposed authority of the claim that they were the "Word of God." As he exposes and challenges what he calls the "terrible texts of the Bible," laying bare the evil done by these texts in the name of God, he also seeks to redeem these texts, hoping to recover their ultimate depth and purpose. Spong looks specifically at texts used to justify homophobia, anti-Semitism, treating women as second-class humans, corporal punishment, and environmental degradation.

HarperSanFrancisco 2006 336 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Why Christianity Must Change Or Die

A Bishop Speaks To Believers In Exile

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Bishop Spong proposes a Christianity based on a whole new way of thinking, premised upon justice and love rather than judgment and literal readings of the Bible. Arguing that fundamentalism is incompatible with true Christian faith, Spong's manifesto is the summation of his life's work and a guide for every reader searching for a reasoned, just, and loving faith.

HarperSF 1999 258 PP. Paper

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