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JESUS FOR THE NON RELIGIOUS: Recovering the Divine at the Heart of the Human

JESUS FOR THE NON RELIGIOUS: Recovering the Divine at the Heart of the Human

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JESUS FOR THE NON RELIGIOUS: Recovering the Divine at the Heart of the Human

by Spong, John Shelby

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0732284953
ISBN 13
9780732284954
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Pymble, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2007. xix, + 316pp. Book clean and square. Soft reading crease on slightly canted spine. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped and pressure-marked on rear wrap. Textblock unmarked, very mild toning to page edges. In 'Jesus for the Non Religious', controversial Bishop and moral activist John Shelby Spong takes aim at the core of the Christian faith - the identity of Jesus himself . . . Contents include: Prelims., Preface, Prologue, Part 1/ Separating the Human Jesus from the Myth. Part 2/ The Original Images of Jesus. Part 3/ Jesus for the Non-Religious. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Book weight approx. 495g. . First Australian Edition, 1st Impression. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bishop John Shelby Spong has been on a life-long quest to rescue the church from irrelevancy. In JESUS FOR THE NONRELIGIOUS, he takes aim at the church’s core belief: who is Jesus. He first strips the superstitious barnacles that have attached themselves to this incredible person: such as that Jesus was born of a virgin in Bethlehem, that his father was Joseph, that he did miracles, that he had twelve disciples, and especially that he physically rose from the dead. Next Spong explains how these traditions arose by the early disciples seeing all he did through the lens of the Hebrew Scriptures. With these new revelations, we are then able to see the true Jesus, a heroic figure who revealed divinity through his humanness and can still guide us today. In short, Spong breaks Jesus free from the idol religion has created and restores for us a revolutionary and life-giving figure we all need to meet.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
JESUS FOR THE NON RELIGIOUS: Recovering the Divine at the Heart of the Human
Author
Spong, John Shelby
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good +
Edition
First Australian Edition, 1st Impression
ISBN 10
0732284953
ISBN 13
9780732284954
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Place of Publication
Pymble, NSW, Australia
Date Published
2007
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords
Religion, Spirituality, Religious Studies, Christianity, Critical Studies, Jesus Christ, Spong, John Shelby
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Religion/Spirituality/Inspiration;

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