Frases de John Shelby Spong

John Shelby Spong es obispo estadounidense.

✵ 16. junio 1931
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John Shelby Spong: Frases en inglés

“The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.”

John Shelby Spong

Fuente: Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell

“What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.”

John Shelby Spong

Fuente: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 24

“True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.”

John Shelby Spong

"Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions," weekly mailing, 2007-SEP-05, as reported on Religious Tolerance.org http://www.religioustolerance.org/reltrue.htm

“Jesus could not have imagined such an idea as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.”

John Shelby Spong

Fuente: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 25

“All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth.”

John Shelby Spong

Interview http://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/christianity/2005/05/i-am-a-mystic.aspx?p=2 with Deborah Caldwell for Beliefnet.com (May 2005)

“Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.”

John Shelby Spong

"Why We Must Reclaim The Bible From Fundamentalists" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-shelby-spong/why-i-wrote-re-claiming-t_b_1007399.html, The Huffington Post (13 October 2011)

“The question must also be raised as to whether we have the actual words of Jesus in any Gospel.”

John Shelby Spong

Fuente: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 78

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