Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of Script by John Shelby Spong

Author:John Shelby Spong [Spong, John Shelby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

Inevitably, therefore, any event that occurred in this period of history would be explained in terms of this worldview, for there was no other. Jesus of Nazareth was an event in the history of the Jewish world in the first century. He was born, grew to adulthood in the Galilean town of Nazareth, exercised the trade of a carpenter, and somewhere around the thirtieth year of his life launched a career as an itinerant teacher and preacher of some considerable power and renown. Stories began to circulate around him. Tales of miraculous power were attributed to him. The farther away from him the tale originated, the more fantastic it seemed to be. It is noteworthy to observe that even Mark's Gospel suggested that those who knew Jesus best and who observed him most closely said that they had never seen the miraculous things that others described so vividly. Unbelief seemed to mark both the members of his family and his neighbors in Nazareth. To explain this, the Gospel writer said that because of their lack of faith it was impossible for Jesus to do any mighty works in Nazareth (Mark 6:5).

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