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TITLE:
Jesus for the non-religious : recovering the divine at the heart of the human / John Shelby Spong.
Publication Date:
2007
Publication Information:
New York : HarperSanFrancisco,
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
316 p.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
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, Spong proposes a new way of understanding the divinity of Christ: as the ultimate dimension of a fulfilled humanity. 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. Jesus for the Non-Religious may 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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780060762070