Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of ScriptHarper Collins, 2009 M03 17 - 288 páginas By popular demand—study guides to two of Bishop John Shelby Spong's bestselling and controversial works, including questions, reflections, and summaries for group and individual use. |
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... earth was not the center of the created order. Isaac Newton and his clockwork universe were at odds with those who pray to an intervening deity. People like Bishop Samuel Wilberforce and his modern-day descendants, called creationists ...
... earth was not the center of the created order. Isaac Newton and his clockwork universe were at odds with those who pray to an intervening deity. People like Bishop Samuel Wilberforce and his modern-day descendants, called creationists ...
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... earth is not flat. We now have the empirical proof of this fact taken from a spaceship hurtling away from this planet, revealing the earth to be an incredibly beautiful sphere of blues and whites continuing its lonely path of orbit ...
... earth is not flat. We now have the empirical proof of this fact taken from a spaceship hurtling away from this planet, revealing the earth to be an incredibly beautiful sphere of blues and whites continuing its lonely path of orbit ...
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... earth is flat, sur- rounded by water on all sides. Water, indeed, is also under- neath the dry land, making it possible for human beings to dig wells and cisterns in order to release the waters of the deep. The sky is a dome over the earth ...
... earth is flat, sur- rounded by water on all sides. Water, indeed, is also under- neath the dry land, making it possible for human beings to dig wells and cisterns in order to release the waters of the deep. The sky is a dome over the earth ...
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... earth. Our forebears called them "falling stars," and the sense that the sky was very near was enhanced by these phenomena, for that which could fall to the earth could not be an infinite distance away. God was thought to live just ...
... earth. Our forebears called them "falling stars," and the sense that the sky was very near was enhanced by these phenomena, for that which could fall to the earth could not be an infinite distance away. God was thought to live just ...
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... earth, much as a child would make a mud pie. In the first narrative, God created by divine fiat—"Let there be," and there was. Here God must actually breathe into Adam the nephesh, the soul, the life- giving spirit. One gets the ...
... earth, much as a child would make a mud pie. In the first narrative, God created by divine fiat—"Let there be," and there was. Here God must actually breathe into Adam the nephesh, the soul, the life- giving spirit. One gets the ...
Contenido
The Gospel | 107 |
Beyond Mythology to Reality | 129 |
The Story of Jesus from a Hebrew | 147 |
The Story of Jesus from a Gentile | 167 |
In the BeginningI | 185 |
13 | 209 |
Who Is Christ for Us? | 227 |
Epilogue | 245 |
Notes | 251 |
Index | 259 |
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Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of Script John Shelby Spong Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
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