A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born (edit title)

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Liked It Rated 5 stars “Dawkins and Fred Bloom didn't hit me like this book did. Written for those of us who grew up as children in the church, who were told to ask Jesus into a room in the middle of our chests, and told that there was a missing link in scientific explanations of the world that did not agree with an...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 5 stars

  “Dawkins and Fred Bloom didn't hit me like this book did. Written for those of us who grew up as children in the church, who were told to ask Jesus into a room in the middle of our chests, and told that there was a missing link in scientific explanations of the world that did not agree with an elder's perception of the Bible. Dawkins is antagnostic, Bloom academically so. But Spong is a Bishop who loves Jesus and Jesus's message: that of loving recklessly, being in total being, and living life fullly. Alex Lowe said it differently: be compassionate, confident and kind. Does God live in the clouds and care about you getting to work on time? Dawkins and Spong do not think so, but Spong gives his message in love, and it reached me. The chest room is empty, and so are the clouds, , and I am full of angst.”

  P-head wrote this review Tuesday, September 29 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 3 stars

  “Time will tell - I just started this one”

  Gina wrote this review Thursday, June 11 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “Spong attempts to define a new Christianity that denies the anthropomorphic god of the old testament and the theistic vision of Christ. From my point of view he is a humanist. He takes the message of love as the central idea of his new Christianity. He seems to struggle to maintain a claim to Christian identity while denying a theistic God. Yet much of what he says rings true relative to the Church today. .[br/]”

  Grandpa wrote this review Saturday, October 27 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 5 stars

  “For progressive Christians who have given up literalism”

  deebranch wrote this review Tuesday, June 12 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No