Jesus for the Non Religious Tapa blanda - 2007

HarperSanFrancisco. Good. 155 x 234 x 26mm. Paperback. 2007. 316 pages. Cover worn and creased.<br>Writing from his prison cel l in Nazi Germany in 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German the ologian, sketched a vision of what he called Religionless Christi anity. In this book, John Shelby Spong puts flesh onto the bare b ones of Bonhoeffer's radical thought. The result is a strikingly new ... .

HarperSanFrancisco. Very Good. 23.4 x 15.5 x 2.6 centimetres (0. Paperback. 2007. 316 pages. <br>Writing from his prison cell in Nazi Germany in 19 45 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologian, sketched a vis ion of what he called Religionless Christianity. In this book, Jo hn Shelby Spong puts flesh onto the bare bones of Bonhoeffer's ra dical thought. The result is a strikingly new and different portr ait ... .

HarperCollins, Australia, 2007. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The controversial and best-selling bishop and moral activist attempts to wrestle Jesus from the binding ties of religion so he can become the spiritual and moral hero our world needs. John Shelby Spong has been on a life-long quest to rescue the church from irrelevancy. In 'Jesus for the Non-Religious', he takes aim at the church's core belief and asks: who is Jesus? He first strips the superstitious barnacles that have attached themselves to this incredible person: such as that Jesus was born of a virgin in Bethlehem, that his father was Joseph, that he performed miracles, that he had twelve disciples, and especially that he physically rose from the dead. Next Spong explains how these traditions arose by the early disciples seeing all he did through the lens of the Hebrew Scriptures. With these new revelations, we are then able to see the true Jesus, a heroic figure who revealed divinity through his humaneness and can… Leer más

Pymble, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2007. xix, + 316pp. Book clean and square. Soft reading crease on slightly canted spine. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped and pressure-marked on rear wrap. Textblock unmarked, very mild toning to page edges. In 'Jesus for the Non Religious', controversial Bishop and moral activist John Shelby Spong takes aim at the core of the Christian faith - the identity of Jesus himself . . . Contents include: Prelims., Preface, Prologue, Part 1/ Separating the Human Jesus from the Myth. Part 2/ The Original Images of Jesus. Part 3/ Jesus for the Non-Religious. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Book weight approx. 495g. . First Australian Edition, 1st Impression. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

HarperCollins Publishers, Sydney, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. preface by author and bibliography, notes, bibliography and index. Illustrated paperback binding with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. In this book the author, in a lifelong quest to rescue the church from irrelevance, " ... takes aim at the core of the Christian faith: the identity of Jesus himself. He first strips back the myths that have surrounded Jesus for centuries – from the virgin birth to his resurrection from the dead. Next bomb explained how these myths arose because Jesus' followers saw everything he did through the lens of the Hebrew Scriptures. With these new revelations, we are then able to see the true Jesus: a heroic figure who revealed divinity through his humanness and can still guide us today." – from rear panel blurb. Minor rubbing of the book edges and panels. Very minor age toning of the textblock edges and pages. This is… Leer más