John Shelby Spong

The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic

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Rescuing John's Gospel from Its Creedal CaptivityJohn Shelby Spong, bestselling author and popular proponent of a modern, scholarly, and authentic Christianity, argues that this last gospel to be written was misinterpreted by the framers of the fourth-century creeds to be a literal account of the life of Jesus when in fact it is a literacy, interpretive retelling of the events in Jesus' life through the medium of fictional characters, from Nicodemus and Lazarus to the Beloved Disciple. The result of this intriguing study not only recaptures the original message of this gospel, but also provides us today with a radical new dimension to the cla… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-06-201131-2
EAN: 9780062011312
Produktnummer: 15429748
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.3 cm 265 g
Gewicht: 265

Über den Autor

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. He writes a weekly column on the web that reaches thousands of people all over the world. To join his online audience, go to www.JohnShelbySpong.com. He lives with his wife, Christine, in New Jersey.