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70 quotes by John Shelby Spong

John Shelby "Jack" Spong (born June 16, 1931) is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church. From 1979 to 2000 he was Bishop of Newark (based in Newark, New Jersey). He is a liberal Christian theologian, religion commentator and author. He calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and traditional doctrines.
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I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by... →

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In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy'... →

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Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God... →

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The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we... →

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There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single... →

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I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth... →

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I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If... →

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The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional... →

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I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

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I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

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God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

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I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

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