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John Shelby Spong is the bestselling author of over 20 books such as Jesus for the Non-Religious, Christianity Must Change or Die, and Eternal Life: A New Vision, where he explores commonly held Christian beliefs and shows us how we can understand them in new ways.  In his next book, Spong turns his attention to the Gospel of John, the fourth Gospel in the Bible. Contrary to what is most often believed, the book of John is written against the background of a three year Jewish liturgical lectionary of the first century synagogue and written by a Jewish mystic who did not think of God as an external being who invaded the world in Jesus. Because of this, the fourth Gospel develops a very different and relatively modern Christology about heightened consciousness, inner being, and an immanent sense of God.  The Fourth Gospel will be a fresh way to read the Gospel of John and a unique primer about how to be a Christian in the post-Christian twenty-first century.  

Author Biography:

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.
Release date NZ
June 11th, 2013
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
368
Dimensions
164x237x30
ISBN-13
9780062011305
Product ID
20989536

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