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. |
Dentro del libro
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... understanding among biblical writers was the common wisdom of their time and place, not remotely close to our understanding of medical science. Studies of plant life, animal life, and human life available in centuries past were ...
... understanding among biblical writers was the common wisdom of their time and place, not remotely close to our understanding of medical science. Studies of plant life, animal life, and human life available in centuries past were ...
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... understanding this world. The earth is also not the center of the universe. That realization has been alive since ... understandings have to 26.
... understanding this world. The earth is also not the center of the universe. That realization has been alive since ... understandings have to 26.
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... understandings have to become anti-intellectual or must close off vast portions of their thinking processes or twist their brains into a kind of firstcentury pretzel in order to maintain their faith system. It is no wonder that they are ...
... understandings have to become anti-intellectual or must close off vast portions of their thinking processes or twist their brains into a kind of firstcentury pretzel in order to maintain their faith system. It is no wonder that they are ...
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... understanding, and God was understood after the analogy of earthly kings. God was a male, sat on a throne, and lived in a heavenly palace. God caused to happen everything that occurred, so that storms, floods, thunder and lightning were ...
... understanding, and God was understood after the analogy of earthly kings. God was a male, sat on a throne, and lived in a heavenly palace. God caused to happen everything that occurred, so that storms, floods, thunder and lightning were ...
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... understanding of Jesus' ascension is also open to serious questions, for the same reasons. The ascension story, as Luke tells it in the Book of Acts, assumes a flat earth covered by a domed ceiling beyond which heaven exists and God ...
... understanding of Jesus' ascension is also open to serious questions, for the same reasons. The ascension story, as Luke tells it in the Book of Acts, assumes a flat earth covered by a domed ceiling beyond which heaven exists and God ...
Contenido
Paul | 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 Am | 185 |
Who Is Christ for Us? | 227 |
Epilogue | 245 |
Notes | 251 |
Index | 259 |
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