Resurrection: Myth and Reality - A Bishop Rethinks the Origins of Christianity - Softcover

Spong, John Shelby

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9780060675479: Resurrection: Myth and Reality - A Bishop Rethinks the Origins of Christianity

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ISBN 10: 0060675470 ISBN 13: 9780060675479

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994

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Spong suggests that the disciples and the writers of the gospels found their images of Jesus in Hebrews, Isaiah II and Daniel. He distils five clues that help to solve the mystery of Easter and enable him to reconstruct what happened at the first Easter and in the days and months following. His theory is that Jesus's followers all deserted him when he was crucified and that his place and manner of burial are unknown. The key disciples met again in Galilee, where they tried to understand the traumatic loss of their leader. They underwent a profound spiritual experience, convincing themselves that Jesus had not risen from the dead as prophesied in the Old Testament.

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"A gripping detective story. . . . [a] marvelously engrossing book."--San Francisco Chronicle

A gripping detective story. . . . [a] marvelously engrossing book. --San Francisco Chronicle"

About the Author:

John Shelby Spong, the Episcopal Bishop of Newark before his retirement in 2000, has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard and at more than 500 other universities all over the world. His books, which have sold well over a million copies, include Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy; The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic; Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World; Eternal Life: A New Vision; Jesus for the Non-Religious, The Sins of Scripture, Resurrection: Myth or Reality?; Why Christianity Must Change or Die; and his autobiography, Here I Stand. He writes a weekly column on the web that reaches thousands of people all over the world. To join his online audience, go to www.JohnShelbySpong.com. He lives with his wife, Christine, in New Jersey.

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