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Title: Living in Sin? : A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality by John Shelby Spong ISBN: 0-06-067507-1 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 02 February, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (21 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Agree or don't, but the issues need to be addressed
Comment: I have used this study guide (along with the companion book) to lead several small-group studies on issues of sexuality. It has been a welcome aid to my work as seminar facilitator.
Passionately agree, vehemently disagree, or remail blissfully unaware of the questions Spong raises. The fact remains that Christians every day are living out the very real questions raised, and they demand (and deserve) to be addressed by Christian clergy and laity.
Perhaps the most useful function of this study guide (and companion book) is that it makes all sides "aware" of the changed playing field. We no longer live in a world that believes God lives just above the sky (whose dome has many tiny pinholes -- the stars), nor that women and children are the property of men, to do with as they please. There are an enormous number of scientific and cultural elements which have changed since the time of the early Church -- it's time the practice of the Church addressed this, with regard to human sexuality.
Love it or hate it, it will make you closely examine what you believe and why you believe it.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of Spong's best
Comment: Written in 1988, way ahead of its time, "Living in Sin?" continues to ask tough questions about sexual ethics in what is now the 21st century. Spong, clearly fed up with the church's naive view of human sexuality, proposes some ideas to the church that are not all that radical in today's changing society. Pointing out the flaws of the bias towards patriarchy shown in the Bible and the church's ongoing reluctance to accept new ideas, Spong calls on the church to bless same-sex relationships and permit sex outside of marriage in some instances. He also petitions the church to permit divorce and encourage divorced persons to worship in full communion with the church. In the book, Spong also asserts that the Bible is not a valid "textbook" for sexual ethics in today's society. He says that what was considered moral in the first century is not necessarily moral today and vice versa. He calls on church leaders to "wake up and smell the coffee" - the church cannot continue to proclaim outdated sexual ethics into the 21st century without losing it's authority. Although a great deal of controversy surrounds John Shelby Spong, this book demands the reader's attention as we are forced to question what we believe is sexually moral and why we believe it. If we believe something just because "the Bible says so," Spong asserts that we are in for a rude awakening. "Living in Sin?" is book that will change the way you think about the relationship between morality and sexuality, as it will certainly help to permeate new doctrines in the church over the coming years as they begin to realize that maybe, just maybe, they had it wrong about sex.
Rating: 1
Summary: Spong is unworthy of his collar
Comment: Spong refuses to realize that God doesn't change, Scripture doesn't change, and therefore the Church shouldn't change. To call the Church "anachronistic" for its attitudes on sexuality is to punt away the truth. Granted, there have been abuses fo power by the church in many instances in areas such as these, and these are to be addressed and fixed, but to completely reevaluate, as Spong endorses, the Church's approach to how it stands in the face of modernity is to bow down to modernity as to an idol. I hope and pray that Spong comes to a saving knowlege of Jesus Christ someday, and abandons the liberal nonsense that he worships in the place of the God he claims to serve.
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Title: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism : A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture by John Shelby Spong ISBN: 0060675187 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 10 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile by John Shelby Spong ISBN: 0060675365 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A New Christianity for a New World : Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born by John Shelby Spong ISBN: 0060670630 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Born of a Woman : Bishop Rethinks the Virgin Birth and the Treatment of Women by a Male-Dominated by John Shelby Spong ISBN: 0060675233 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 17 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Resurrection : Myth or Reality? by John Shelby Spong ISBN: 0060674296 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 18 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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