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File Size: 443 KB
Print Length: 336 pages
Publisher: HarperOne; Reprint edition (October 13, 2009)
Publication Date: October 13, 2009
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
Language: English
ASIN: B000FCK3E6
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I think three stars is the most I can give to this offer from Spong. I actually am like minded concerning many of the themes in the book that speak of a damaged Christian tradition. However, after reading this book, I feel that I have learned that Spong is a very unhappy man. He is able to locate the tumor in the human race without so much as a possible solution. And so it continues that polemics are confused with progressive and helpful discourse. Spong carries the tradition according to his own ideas. We have that right.
For those that believe that the Bible is the inerrant word of God, this book will reek of blasphemy and heresy. For those who are looking for someone to use the Bible to diffuse the Bible, you will be disappointed. However, if you are looking for a 21st century take on a 2000 year old important element of Western civilization, you will find this book by John Shelby Spong an interesting read.Taking on the Bible's verses around women, homosexuality, the environment, children and anti-Semitism, Spong proceeds to discredit their modern use - predominantly through showing both the historical context in which they were written, as well as the literary context from which they were extracted. Supplementing this approach, Spong is unafraid to point out areas of the Bible that have been "overlooked" or abandoned (such as Levtical purity rituals) where time and tradition have impacted the "inerrant" dictates of the Bible.Proceeding to draw parallels to the Iliad and Odessy, Spong then looks at the Bible - particularly the Old Testament and the Yahwistic, Priestly, Elohistic and Duteronomistic authorship- as a series of epic literature of a cultic people. Leaning on his theory of the Gospels as midrashic literature that he explores more fully in his book "Liberating the Gospels", he draws similar conclusions for the New Testament as well. He also takes on ecumenism and universality of religion as a quest for truth, as opposed as a quest for security.Spong is nothing if not controversial, and his views of Christianity and Christian thought are well out of the mainstream. However, they seem to resonate in a 21st Century scientific and accepting culture. The Christian message of life, love and acceptance underpins his theology as opposed to the Creeds. You may not agree, and you may feel uncomfortable in his approaches, but if you have an open mind, he will make you ponder and question - which in my opinion is the sign of a good author.
Not only is this one of the best books I've read this year, it has expanded my mind and drawn me closer to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. While Spong did shake me up in this book, I highly recommend it to all Christians who are willing to follow Jesus beyond the borders of the Christian religion. I have to say that the last chapter titled "Jesus Beyond Religion" seemed very familiar to me at first. By the time I finished it I realized that N.T.Wright was teaching the same thing in one of his books I read, only in a different. This is an amazing book.
This is the best commentary on the Gospel of John I have ever read. He strikes down biblical litteralism and replaces it with a metaphorical approach to understanding the message of John. He has successfully redefined the concept of God. He has linked being divine to being human and shows they are, in fact, one and the same being and are different expressions of the same ground of being. This book should appeal to those who take the admonition of the apostle Paul seriously, who said, "when I was a child I thought as a child, but when I became an adult, I put away childish things",This book will appeal to those have the intellectual capacity to explore new ideas and willing to embrace a new biblical paradigm that offers richer and more accurate biblical understanding. This an excellent book that shows the contexts of the then current events leading to the the gospel of John.
Bishop Spong has chosen a title that will shock fundamentalists. Not only does Bishop Spong argue that the Bible is not the "Word of God," he sees it filled with "terrible texts" that have been used to justify the worst of human instincts. Most of the book is a study of specific Biblical quotations that have been used to oppose birth control, suppress women and homosexuals, abuse children, and hate Jews. These chapters often place the text in historical context as part of explaining why they are no longer applicable to our times.The last sections of the book present the Bible as the Hebrew epic comparable to the Iliad and the Odyssey, recounting the development of the Torah through the writers usually designated as J,E,D and P. He maintains that trying to make the Bible "the source of religious authority or the ultimate definer of truth, is to turn it into being demonic." (p.276)Spong tells the story of an Episcopal minister in Louisville, Kentucky, who interfered with a study group that read books by Marcus Borg, Elaine Pagels, and Karen Armstrong. That minister would certainly not tolerate a group studying this book; but this is a book that should be used for Bible study in church classes, even though in most congregations it would require great courage. This book offers a new and dynamic model for contemporary Bible study.
I have read other books by Bishop Spong and enjoyed his open review of taboo issues within Christianity. He has articulated my personal concerns and objections to fundamentalist Christianity in a respectful and straight forward argument. This is not written by someone who does not love Christianity rather someone who loves it enough to confront the hurtful aspects of said religion.I liked the statement about being "born again" vs. growing up and having a mature view of Christianity. The latter is what is needed in the author's view and I wholeheartedly agree.For those thinking people who have turned away from Christianity because of the aspects that could not be understood or accepted, then consider this book because you will be relieved that others have the same world view.
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