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| John Shelby Spong | Return to Book Categories |
These are some of the titles we have available in our store. To order these or other titles, please contact us at gtreusch@saintmarks.org or (206) 323-1040.
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Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Virgin Birth and the Treatment of Women by a Male-Dominated Church
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, New Jersey, challenges the doctrine of the virgin birth, tracing its development in the early Christian church and revealing its legacy in our contemporary attitudes toward women and female sexuality. This book is based on the William Belden Noble lectures Spong delivered at Harvard. |
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Eternal Life: A New Vision
Always compelling and controversial, Bishop John Shelby Spong, the leading Christian liberal and pioneer for human rights, wrestles with the question that all of us will ultimately face. In Eternal Life: A New Vision, his final book, Spong shares his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death and reveals how he came to a new conviction about eternal life. God, says Spong, is ultimately one, and each of us is part of that oneness. We do not live on after death as children who have been rewarded with heaven or punished with hell but as part of the life and being of God, sharing in God’s eternity, which is beyond the barriers of time and space. Spong argues that the discovery of the eternal can be found within each of us if we go deeply into ourselves, transcend our limits and become fully human. By seeking God within, by living each day to its fullest, we will come to understand how we live eternally. To Job’s question “If a man (or a woman) dies, will he (or she) live again?” he gives his answer as a ringing yes! |
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Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love & Equality
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Jesus for the Non-Religious
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A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith Is Dying and how a New Faith Is Being Born
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Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture
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The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love
Biblical texts have been used throughout history to denigrate or persecute others with the justification that these acts were done according to the "Word of God." Bishop John Shelby Spong exposes and challenges the evil done in the name of God, while redeeming these texts, hoping to recover their ultimate depth and purpose. As Spong battles against the way the Bible has been used historically, he provides a new framework, introducing people to a proper way to engage this holy book of the Judeo-Christian tradition. We also carry these other Spong titles: Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality / Resurrection: Myth or Reality? |
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Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks To Believers in Exile
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