Product Description

Bishop Spong, author of "Jesus for the Non Religious", "Why Christianity Must Change or Die", and many other books, is known for his controversial ideas and fighting for minority rights. Spong also has a natural gift for storytelling. These qualities come through in this remarkable spiritual journey about his life-long struggle with the questions of God and death in which he reveals how he ultimately came to believe in eternal life. God, says Spong, is ultimately one, and each of us is part of that oneness. This is how we live on after death: not in Heaven or Hell, but as part of the eternity that continues after we die beyond the barriers of time and space.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79047 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

About the Author
John Shelby Spong was the Episcopal Bishop of Newark before his retirement in 2000. As a visiting lecturer at Harvard and at universities and churches throughout North America and the English-speaking world, he is one of the leading spokespersons for liberal Christianity. His books include Jesus for the Non Religious, Sins of Scripture, A New Christianity for a New World, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Resurrection: Myth or Reality?, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, , and his autobiography, Here I Stand. He has initiated landmark discussions of controversies within the church and has become an outspoken advocate for change.

Customer Reviews

A Journey to a 21st Century Christianity
In my opinion this is Bishop Spong's best book which,unfortunately,he says will be his last.As a searcher for a more relevant spirituality,I have not been disappointed.I have read it twice straight through mainly on the bus going to work,which isn't an easy thing to do but I found it so gripping I didn't hear other people's mobile phones or loud conversations.Briefly,it is the story of Bishop Spong's lifelong faith journey.This journey has taken him through and beyond religion to a much more meaningful understanding of human life with its unique self conscious awareness. He explains so clearly the role religion has played so far in shaping human belief in God,death and the afterlife and shows how so much religious language and out of date thinking about these deep mysteries makes little sense in our contemporary scientific world and must be re-articulated in a more time relevant way.Spong strives to do exactly this in the final chapters of this book.He gives me hope.