Overview
A man who has consciously and deliberately walked the path of Christ, John Shelby Spong has lived his entire life inside the Christian Church. In this profound and considered work, he offers a radical new way to look at the gospels today as he shows just how deeply Jewish the Christian Gospels are and how much they reflect the Jewish scriptures, history, and patterns of worship. Pulling back the layers of a long-standing Gentile ignorance, he reveals how the church's literal reading of the Bible is so far removed from these original Jewish authors' intent that it is an act of heresy. Using the Gospel of Matthew as a guide, Spong explores the Bible's literary and liturgical roots to explain how the events of Jesus' life, including the virgin birth, the miracles, the details of the passion story, and the resurrection and ascension, would have been understood by both the Jewish authors of the various gospels and by the Jewish audiences for which they were originally written. In Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy, Spong illuminates the gospels as never before and provides a better blueprint for the future than where the church's leaden and heretical reading of the story of Jesus has led us--one that allows the faithful to live inside the Christian story in the modern world.
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Author: John Shelby Spong ,
Bob Souer
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781665229210
ISBN 10: 1665229217
Publication Date: 07 August 2018
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Recovers the original meaning behind Matthew's Gospel with profound implications for the way we look at Jesus and follow him today. -- Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing
"""Recovers the original meaning behind Matthew's Gospel with profound implications for the way we look at Jesus and follow him today."" -- ""Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing"""
Author Information
John Shelby Spong, the Episcopal Bishop of Newark before his retirement in 2000, has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard and at more than 500 other universities all over the world. His books, which have sold well over a million copies, include Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy; The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic; Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World; Eternal Life: A New Vision; Jesus for the Non-Religious, The Sins of Scripture, Resurrection: Myth or Reality?; Why Christianity Must Change or Die; and his autobiography, Here I Stand. Spong writes a weekly column on the web that reaches thousands of people all over the world. He lives with his wife, Christine, in New Jersey. Bob Souer is a full-time professional storyteller, voice actor, and audiobook narrator whose voice has been heard on PBS, the History Channel, the Military Channel, and many other networks.
