John Shelby Spong
John Shelby "Jack" Spong was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, he served as the Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, from 1979 to 2000. Spong was a liberal Christian theologian and author who called for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and traditional doctrines.
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- Born in
- Charlotte
- Educated at
- University of North Carolina at Chapel HillVirginia Theological SeminaryYale Divinity School
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Trending topics shown first"There are passages in the Gospels that portray Jesus of Nazareth as narrow-minded, vindictive, and even hypocritical. Jesus exhorted people to love their enemies and to pray for their persecutors and …"
"What the mind cannot believe the heart can finally never adore."
"The Christian story did not drop from heaven fully written. It grew and developed year by year over a period of forty-two to seventy years. That is not what most Christians have been taught to think, …"
"Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin…"
"Jesus could not have imagined such an idea as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity."
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