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Jesus for the Non-Religious

By: John Shelby Spong
Narrated by: John Shelby Spong, Alan Sklar
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 Writing from his prison cell in Nazi Germany in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologian, sketched a vision of what he called "Religionless Christianity". In this book, John Shelby Spong puts flesh onto the bare bones of Bonhoeffer's radical thought. The result is a strikingly new and different portrait of Jesus of Nazareth, a Jesus for the non-religious.

Spong challenges much of the traditional understanding, from the tale of Jesus' miraculous birth to the account of his cosmic ascension into the sky. He questions the historicity of the ideas that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, that he had 12 disciples, or that the miracle stories were ever meant to be descriptions of supernatural events. He also speaks directly to those critics of Christianity who call God a "delusion" and who describe Christianity as having become evil and destructive.

Spong invites listeners to examine Jesus in the context of both the Jewish scriptures and the liturgical life of the first-century synagogue. He proposes a new way of understanding the divinity of Christ as the ultimate dimension of a fulfilled humanity. Jesus for the Non-Religious may finally bring the pious and the secular into a meaningful dialogue, opening the door to a living Christianity in the post-Christian world.

©2007 John Shelby Spong (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers Christian Living Christianity

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A great look and comparison between the mythical and or historical Jesus which was exactly what I was looking for. It's given me loads to mull over on this road of deconstructing from religion. Thank you John Shelby Spong

so informative and interesting

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I loved this audiobook though it contains a lot of subversive ideas. Whatever your level of relationship with Jesus, the author challenges your conceptions of Jesus and leaves you either in doubt or with renewed perspective on Christ.

Challenging and affirming at the same time

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