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Author Spong, John Shelby.

Title Why Christianity must change or die : a bishop speaks to believers in exile : a new reformation of the Church's faith and practice / John Shelby Spong.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, [1999]
©1998
©1999

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  230 S763W    Check Shelf
Edition First HarperCollins paperback edition.
Description xxiii, 257 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
Contents 1. On saying the Christian creed with honesty -- 2. The meaning of exile and how we got there -- 3. In search of God : is atheism the only alternative to theism? -- 4. Beyond theism to new God images -- 5. Discovering anew the Jesus of the New Testament -- 6. Jesus as rescuer : an image that has to go -- 7. The Christ as spirit person -- 8. What think ye of Christ? where the human enters the divine -- 9. The meaning of prayer in a world with no external deity -- 10. A new basis for ethics in a new age -- 11. The emerging church : reading the signs present today -- 12. The future church : a speculative dream -- 13. Eternal life apart from heaven and hell -- Epilogue : a final word.
Subject Christianity.
Christianity -- Controversial literature.
Spong, John Shelby.
ISBN 0060675365 paperback
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