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...the
provocative national bestseller that issues a daring call for
contemporary understanding of scripture...Bishop Spong brilliantly reclaims the Bible from
the narrow-minded literalism that has been used to justify
slavery, ban textbooks, deny the rights of gays and lesbians,
subordinate women, and justify war and revenge. |
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..Bishop
Spong proposes a Christianity based on a whole new way of
thinking. Arguing that
fundamentalism is incompatible with true Christian faith ...Spong's manifesto is both the summation of his life's work and
a guide for every reader searching for a reasoned, just, and
loving faith. |
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Richard
E. Rubenstein takes the reader to the streets of the Roman
Empire during the fourth century, when a fateful debate over the
divinity of Jesus Christ is being fought. .... Is Jesus the son of God and
therefore not the same as God? Or is Jesus precisely God on
earth and therefore equal to Him? |
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In
Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at
these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be
suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. ...Lost Christianities is an
eye-opening account of politics, power, and the clash of ideas
among Christians in the decades before one group came to see its
views prevail. |
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Challenging
the fundamentalist readings of the scriptures and marshaling the
latest archaeological evidence to support its new vision of
ancient Israel, The Bible Unearthed offers a fascinating
and controversial perspective on when and why the Bible was
written and why it possesses such great spiritual and emotional
power today. |