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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... to tell us of Lot's subsequent drunk- enness and his seduction into incest by his scheming daughters (Gen. 19:30-36). Once again, the purpose of a claim of biblical literalism is revealed to be not to call people to. 7.
... to tell us of Lot's subsequent drunk- enness and his seduction into incest by his scheming daughters (Gen. 19:30-36). Once again, the purpose of a claim of biblical literalism is revealed to be not to call people to. 7.
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... claims without their being called to accountability in the name of truth. It is for these reasons that I have found it imperative to put another voice into the public arena. My purpose in this volume is first to rescue the Bible from ...
... claims without their being called to accountability in the name of truth. It is for these reasons that I have found it imperative to put another voice into the public arena. My purpose in this volume is first to rescue the Bible from ...
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... claim be dismissed as ludicrous in any other branch of human knowledge? Is it less ludicrous because we have surrounded it with a religious aura? Have we embraced the meaning of the subjective quality of a particular language, the truth ...
... claim be dismissed as ludicrous in any other branch of human knowledge? Is it less ludicrous because we have surrounded it with a religious aura? Have we embraced the meaning of the subjective quality of a particular language, the truth ...
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... claims of infalli- bility and inerrancy are familiar religious claims. This is the very stuff of religious imperialism. All of this seemed to me more like religious bigotry than divinely inspired Scripture. But there it was in the Bible ...
... claims of infalli- bility and inerrancy are familiar religious claims. This is the very stuff of religious imperialism. All of this seemed to me more like religious bigotry than divinely inspired Scripture. But there it was in the Bible ...
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... divinely inspired, inerrant word of God. Yet the claim continued to be made and continues to this day. Have these people simply not read the text? Are they hopelessly uninformed? Is there a different Bible? Are they blinded 20.
... divinely inspired, inerrant word of God. Yet the claim continued to be made and continues to this day. Have these people simply not read the text? Are they hopelessly uninformed? Is there a different Bible? Are they blinded 20.
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 the Meaning of ... John Shelby Spong Vista de fragmentos - 1991 |
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