Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #151850 in Books
• Published on: 1992-03-13
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .46 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
“[Spong is] striving to revive the imaginative possibilities of ancient Scripture for the women and men of today.” (Mirabella )

Ingram
A television clergyman calls for a reclaiming of the Bible from the narrow-minded literalism of fundamentalism that has been used to justify slavery, ban textbooks, deny homosexuals their rights, subordinate women, and justify war. Reprint. $25,000 ad/promo.

About the Author

John Shelby Spong was the Episcopal Bishop of Newark for twenty-four years prior to his retirement in 2000. Since then he has taught at Harvard University, the University of the Pacific and Drew University and he has been a visiting lecturer at universities and churches throughout North America and the English-speaking world. His books have sold over a million copies and he is regarded as one of Christianity’s frontier twenty-first-century thinkers. His bestselling titles include Eternal Life: A New Vision, Jesus for the Non-Religious, The Sins of Scripture, A New Christianity for a New World, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Resurrection: Myth or Reality?, Why Christianity Must Change or Die and his autobiography, Here I Stand. He lives with his wife, Christine, in Morris Plains, New Jersey.