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A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born
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Average Rating:  out of 108 Reviews
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $4.50
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780060670634
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Shelby Spong
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 2002-09-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Christianity will not be a viable belief system for honest people in the contemporary world, writes John Shelby Spong, until it drops a few outmoded ideas--for instance, belief in a supernatural God who reveals Himself from outside creation. A New Christianity for a New World continues the work begun in Spong's bestselling Why Christianity Must Change or Die, in which the former Episcopalian bishop diagnosed Christianity's major problems. Here, he offers a vision of what authentic Christian belief might look like today, stripped of theism and all its corollaries (doctrines such as the Trinity, the Incarnation, and Atonement). Christians may come to believe that "God is beyond Jesus, but Jesus participated in the Being of God and Jesus is my way into God." Readers inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer's tantalizing writings on "religionless Christianity" in Letters and Papers from Prison and by John A.T. Robinson's Honest to God will find much challenge and comfort in Spong's New Christianity, his most mature and most radical book. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Important Reading for Christians |
Date: 2008-10-30 |
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Details: This is a very helpful book among the many out today looking with honest questions at the assumptions of Christianity over the past 1500 plus years. It makes a great discussion piece among persons seeking a more honest assessment of their faith. The one weakness, which is large to me, is the lack of spiritual alternatives or inclusions. Spong seems to need a trip to the east to discover the deep roots of spirituality. He also completely neglects the ancient and current gnostic contributions to the discussion, especially the recent phenomenal book, A Course in Miracles. His next and last book as he writes, will address spirituality. I look forward to reading it. |
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Review Summary: Troubling & Only Partially Satisfying |
Date: 2008-05-26 |
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Details: Selby Spong's last book has much to commend it. He is sincere in his endevour, lucid and honest. He works hard to lead the reader on a journey. But the book is troubling. On one level it is because he is prone to gross factual distortions. To name a few:
- He asserts that the modern West is a particularly drug prone culture. He gives no factual basis for this but it is certainly possible to think of numerous earlier or other cultures which had much higher drug usage rates - eighteenth century England, the Inca's etc etc
- He asserts that Christianity is particularly violent. Again there is no evidence of this and again it is transparently obvious that the most violent regimes in history have been secular (Mao, Hitler, Stalin to name three)
- He asserts that Christianity has not been particularly successful outside of Europe. Again this is transparently false as he just forgets about Christianity's penetration in South America.
These are just three examples but it suggests a willingness to be fact free in the name of the polemic.
And as for this polemic? Here, I think he does ask good questions but provides poor answers. If he is pointing to a new Christianity then I think he has failed because the differences between his Christianity and Buddhism (in particular) are minute. He takes so little from the 2000 years of Christian evolution that it may as well not have happened. |
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Review Summary: Courageous? I think not |
Date: 2008-05-23 |
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Details: I picked up a copy of this book at my local library for a dollar. I had read something else of Spong's years ago and wanted to see if my earlier less-than-favorable impressions still held. No real surprises. Many people praise Spong for being courageous in his writings, but it seems to me that Spong has stopped believing in God in general, as well as in Christianity, and yet is afraid to completely admit it, maybe even to himself. (Though the book left no doubt in my mind.) |
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Review Summary: A clear view of Christianity |
Date: 2008-04-09 |
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Details: John Spong is a prophet with a unique insight into the complex relationship between Christianity as a way of life and Christianity as an institutionalized religion. All of his books are challenging, risky, shocking and in the end, liberating. He is a brilliant man but more important, a brave and optimistic man. He cuts through the narcissistic customs, rules, myths and control-oriented clerical culture of organized Christianity and tries to expose the real Jesus and the real Christianity. He succeeds. This is the book for anyone who is frustrated or angry or disappointed with their man-created religious denomination. Spong excises the guilt that the churches associate with any questioning of their methods, madness and lies. Once this guilt is gone one can find hope and peace in a vision of Christianity that includes and loves and does not divide, exclude and condemn. |
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Review Summary: New Christianity for a New World |
Date: 2008-03-25 |
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Details: John Spong writes with passion and conviction which embrace the very depth of Christianiy for the modern times. He has been given the tools to lead all of us to a new and deeper relationship with the Christ we have known,and to the realistic Christ we have been searching for. We have the opportunity to have a more united world for all faiths in the future, and hopefully, we will be able to enjoy more peacefull lives for all man kind with the use of his wisdom. |
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