John Shelby Spong. That opening will be sufficient for some readers to caricature this review and dismiss it immediately, reading no further. The same would occur if his book A New Christianity for a New World happened to appear in their hand…
I refer to this review because I am about to read The Sins of Scripture (2005). Last year I read Here I Stand, his autogiography, of which I said: “I am captivated by the voice that comes through Here I Stand, more so than through some of his other works I have read; I recommend the book strongly.”
To return to the review of A New Christianity for a New World:
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