Eternal Life: A New Vision by John Shelby Spong audiobook

Eternal Life: A New Vision: A New Vision

By John Shelby Spong
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Drawing on a lifetime of wisdom, New York Times bestselling author and controversial religious leader John Shelby Spong continues to challenge traditional Christian theology in Eternal Life: A New Vision. In this remarkable spiritual autobiography about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he ultimately came to believe in eternal life.

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Drawing on a lifetime of wisdom, New York Times bestselling author and controversial religious leader John Shelby Spong continues to challenge traditional Christian theology in Eternal Life: A New Vision. In this remarkable spiritual autobiography about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he ultimately came to believe in eternal life.

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“Fear of death is the most fundamental fear of human existence. The only way it can be conquered is through knowledge and experience of your eternal being. Eternal Life: A New Vision is elegant invitation to find this part of yourself and be liberated.” —Deepak Chopra
“His courage, candor and intense awareness are unique gifts to people both inside and outside Christianity at this critical time in human and planetary history.” —Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing
“This work, bound to be influential, offers new insights into religion’s big questions about life and death, making an invaluable contribution to both religious scholarship and faithful exploration.” —Publishers Weekly
“Spong has spent his life and work making sense of this most fundamental human issue…His fans will find this spiritual autobiography fascinating, but so, too, should anyone interested in the still uncomfortable topics of death and mortality.” —Booklist
“With subtlety and complexity, Spong promotes an idea of an ongoing existence beyond our physicality, one that entirely supercedes “religious” notions of Heaven or Hell and even conventional notions of God…Spong’s writing here as elsewhere is intelligent, engaged, comforting, and uplifting.” —Library Journal
“In Spong’s perpetual quest for truth and knowledge, he has transformed the enigmatic cosmic energy of the ‘big bang’ into an afterglow of human hope for the ages.” —Daniel H. Gregory, MD, senior attending physician, Bassett Healthcare 
“Spong once again puts his intellectual money on common sense…Religion’s purpose, he claims, is “security, not Truth”—a key insight that demands, in turn, a set of wholly new visions… Spong…[is] a unique visionary.” —St. Louis Post Dispatch
“John Shelby Spong, the reinterpreter of Christianity for the doubtful, retired as the Episcopal bishop of New Jersey in 2001 but not from his religious provocations…People have to get beyond the idea of God as a heavenly judge who hands out rewards and punishment.” —Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Author Bio: John Shelby Spong

Author Bio: John Shelby Spong

John Shelby Spong was the Episcopal bishop of Newark before his retirement in 2000. As a leading spokesperson for an open, scholarly, and progressive Christianity, Bishop Spong has taught at Harvard and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has also lectured at universities, conference centers, and churches in North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Runtime: 7.78
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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