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

By: Material type: TextPublication details: [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 276 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0060670843
  • 0060670630 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR124 .Sh3
Contents:
1. A place to begin : the old is no more, the new is not yet -- 2. The signs of the death of theism -- 3. Self-consciousness and theism : Siamese twins at birth -- 4. Beyond theism but not beyond God -- 5. The original Christ : before the theistic distortion -- 6. Watching theism capture Christianity -- 7. Changing the basic Christian myth -- 8. Jesus beyond incarnation: a nontheistic divinity -- 9. Original sin is out, the reality of evil is in -- 10. Beyond evangelism and world mission to a post-theistic universalism -- 11. But what about prayer -- 12. The ecclesia of tomorrow -- 13. Why does it matter : the public face of the ecclesia -- 14. The courage to move into the future.
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1. A place to begin : the old is no more, the new is not yet --
2. The signs of the death of theism --
3. Self-consciousness and theism : Siamese twins at birth --
4. Beyond theism but not beyond God --
5. The original Christ : before the theistic distortion --
6. Watching theism capture Christianity --
7. Changing the basic Christian myth --
8. Jesus beyond incarnation: a nontheistic divinity --
9. Original sin is out, the reality of evil is in --
10. Beyond evangelism and world mission to a post-theistic universalism --
11. But what about prayer --
12. The ecclesia of tomorrow --
13. Why does it matter : the public face of the ecclesia --
14. The courage to move into the future.

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