Jesus for the Non-Religious
- Author: John Shelby Spong
- Narrator: Alan Sklar
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 12:21:45
Synopsis
Writing from his prison cell in Nazi Germany in 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologian, sketched a vision of what he called "Religionless Christianity." In this book, John Shelby Spong puts flesh onto the bare bones of Bonhoeffer's radical thought. The result is a strikingly new and different portrait of Jesus of Nazareth, a Jesus for the non-religious.
Spong challenges much of the traditional understanding, from the tale of Jesus' miraculous birth to the account of his cosmic ascension into the sky. He questions the historicity of the ideas that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, that he had twelve disciples, or that the miracle stories were ever meant to be descriptions of supernatural events. He also speaks directly to those critics of Christianity who call God a "delusion" and who describe how Christianity has become evil and destructive.
Spong invites his readers to look at Jesus through the lens of both the Jewish scriptures and the liturgical life of the first century synagogue. He proposes a new way of understanding the divinity of Christ as the ultimate dimension of a fulfilled humanity. Jesus for the Non-Religious may be the book that finally brings the pious and the secular into a meaningful dialogue, opening the door to a living Christianity in the post-Christian world.
Read by Alan Sklar
Preface, prologue, and epilogue read by the Author
Chapters
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Chapter 001
Duration: 59s -
Chapter 002
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 003
Duration: 05min -
Chapter 004
Duration: 03min -
Chapter 005
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 006
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 007
Duration: 06min -
Chapter 008
Duration: 08min -
Chapter 009
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 010
Duration: 08min -
Chapter 011
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 012
Duration: 05min -
Chapter 013
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 014
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 015
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 016
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 017
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 018
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 019
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 020
Duration: 08min