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Author Spong, John Shelby.

Title A new Christianity for a new world : why traditional faith is dying and how a new faith is being born / John Shelby Spong.

Imprint [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, 2002, c2001.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  230.044 Sp66n 2002    ---  Available
Edition 1st HarperCollins pbk. ed.
Description xxv, 276 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-266) and index.
Contents A place to begin: the old is no more, the new is not yet -- The signs of the death of theism -- Self-consciousness and theism: Siamese twins at birth -- Beyond theism but not beyond God -- The original Christ: before the theistic distortion -- Watching theism capture Christianity -- Changing the basic Christian myth -- Jesus beyond incarnation: a nontheistic divinity -- Original sin is out; the reality of evil is in -- Beyond evangelism and world mission to a post-theistic universalism -- But what about prayer? -- The ecclesia of tomorrow -- Why does it matter?: The public face of the ecclesia -- The courage to move into the future.
Subject Christianity.
Faith.
Spong, John Shelby.
ISBN 0060670630 (pbk.)

 
    
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