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Unbelievable : why neither ancient creeds nor the reformation can produce a living faith today / John Shelby Spong. by Spong, John Shelby. author. Subjects Christianity -- 21st century. Publisher Info:  New York, NY : HarperOne, [2018] Edition:  First edition. Description:  xvi, 319 pages ; 24 cm RDA Types:  text unmediated volume ISBN:  9780062641298 0062641298 Contents:  Part I. Setting the stage -- Why modern men and women can no longer be believers -- Part II. Stating the problem -- How the first Reformation began -- Differentiating the experience from the explanation -- Part III. Thesis 1: God -- The challenge of the Copernican revolution -- The impact on theism from Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin -- Dealing with the insights of Freud -- A place to begin -- being not a being -- The quest for God: a new form -- Our definition of God: evolving, never fixed -- Part IV. Thesis 2: Jesus the Christ -- Escaping the idolatry of the Incarnation -- The collapse of the salvation story -- Part V. Thesis 3: Original sin -- The Garden of Eden -- Part VI. Thesis 4: The virgin birth -- The story of the virgin birth -- The actual details behind Jesus' birth -- Part VII. Thesis 5: Miracles -- When miracles entered the Bible -- The miracles in the Moses/Joshua story -- Elijah and Elisha -- miracles expanded -- The miracles of Jesus -- Messiah miracles -- the final clue -- Part VIII. Thesis 6: Atonement theology -- Renouncing "Jesus dies for my sins" -- Incomplete -- not fallen -- Part IX. Thesis 7: Easter -- The Resurrection -- Paul's list of Resurrection witnesses -- The Gospels' understanding of Easter -- Part X. Thesis 8: The Ascension -- Elijah magnified -- Part XI. Thesis 9: Ethics -- Finding the basis for ethics -- How the Ten Commandments have changed through history -- Meet Moses' rather-in-law -- The questionable relevance of the Ten Commandments today -- Modern ethics -- Part XII. Thesis 10: Prayer -- The death of prayer -- Prayer: an act of being or of doing? -- Driving power toward a new understanding -- Part XIII. Thesis 11: Life after death -- Life after death -- still believable? -- A new perspective on eternity -- Part XIV. Thesis 12: Universalism -- The marks of tomorrow's Christianity -- Part XV. Epilogue -- My mantra: This I do believe. Format Book:  No. of Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Marion Public Library Top Floor 230 SPO Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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