

Biblical Literalism
A Gentile Heresy: A Journey into a New Christianity Through the Doorway of Matthew's Gospel
Author: John Shelby Spong
Narrator: Bob Souer
Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/07/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Biblical Commentary, New Testament
Synopsis
Using the Gospel of Matthew as a guide, Spong explores the Bible's literary and liturgical roots to explain how the events of Jesus' life, including the virgin birth, the miracles, the details of the passion story, and the resurrection and ascension, would have been understood by both the Jewish authors of the various gospels and by the Jewish audiences for which they were originally written.
In Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy, Spong illuminates the gospels as never before and provides a better blueprint for the future than where the church's leaden and heretical reading of the story of Jesus has led us—one that allows the faithful to live inside the Christian story in the modern world.