This work challenges each point of the traditional Creed and seeks to come to a contemporary understanding of God. Spong's main arguments centre round a wish to re-interpret traditional Christianity as we know it.
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Robert W Funk, Chairman of the Jesus Seminar writes: 'Bishop Spong is a singularity among ecclesiastical leaders in the twentieth century. His candor, courage and acumen are unparalleled. He takes refuge in no vestiges of Christian orthodoxy. He gathers the anachronisms of traditional faith and nails them to the cross...'
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John Shelby Spong was the Episcopal Bishop of Newark, New Jersey for twenty-four years before his retirement in 2000. He is one of the leading spokespersons for liberal Christianity and has been featured on 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, FOX News Live, and Extra. This book is based on the William Belden Noble lectures Spong delivered at Harvard.
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It's been about ten years since John Shelby Spong wrote WHY CHRISTIANITY MUST CHANGE OR DIE. I count his words as true and still significant for Christianity's need to shift its belief from the God beyond the sky to the God who is deep within life and all of us. The ancient words of scripture have been so calcified among belief systems as to make God inaccessible. Many in exile over the theistic 'God of the sky' welcome a new path on which it is possible to experience the divine presence without coated 'churchianity' and the ancient language for guilt, rewards and punishment. Spong's WHY CHRSTIANITY MUST CHANGE OR DIE continues to be a welcome relief and perhaps an advent for experiencing God as never imagined.
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this alone challenges bliever to really think about their relationship with God as is the bible a colection of myths handed down for years . How much truth is in the word of God if the accounts of Jesus were record forty years after his death? how can God allow sufering and starvation in the world and yet claim to be a just God. why dont he feed starving people mania with this?
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