Read The Sins of Scripture Online
Authors: John Shelby Spong
Parrinder, Geoffrey.
Sex in the World’s Religions.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1980.
Pelikan, Jaroslav.
The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600).
Vol. 1 of
The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine.
Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971.
Pittenger, Norman.
Making Sexuality Human.
New York: Pilgrim Press, 1970.
Richardson, Herbert W. T.
Nun, Witch and Playmate: The Americanization of Sex.
New York: Mellen Press, 1971.
Robinson, John A. T.
Honest to God.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1963.
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The Human Face of God.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1973.
Sanders, E. P.
Jesus and Judaism.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985.
Sandmel, Samuel.
Anti-Semitism in the New Testament?
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978.
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The Genius of Paul.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958.
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Judaism and Christian Beginnings.
Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979.
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We Jews and Jesus.
New York: Schocken Books, 1970.
Schillebeeckx, Edward.
Christ: The Experience of Jesus as Lord.
New York: Seabury Press, 1980.
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Jesus: An Experiment in Christology.
New York: Seabury Press, 1979.
Schleiermacher, Friedrich.
The Christian Faith.
London: T. and T. Clark, 1908. Originally published 1821.
Spong, John Shelby.
The Bishop’s Voice: Selected Essays.
Compiled and edited by Christine Mary Spong. New York: Crossroads Press, 1999.
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Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Virgin Birth and the Treatment of Women in a Male-Dominated Church.
San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992.
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Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes.
San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996.
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Living in Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality.
San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1988.
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A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith Is Dying and How a New Faith Is Being Born.
San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2001.
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Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture.
San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991.
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Resurrection: Myth or Reality? A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Easter.
San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994.
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This Hebrew Lord: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Jesus.
San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1973, 1988, and 1993.
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Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile.
San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1998.
Stendahl, Krister.
Paul Among the Jews and Gentiles.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1996.
Swidler, Leonard, and Arlene Swidler, eds.
Women Priests: A Catholic Commentary on the Vatican Declaration.
New York: Paulist Press, 1977.
Tacey, David.
The Spirituality Revolution.
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2003.
Taylor, John V.
The Go-Between God.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973.
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre.
Science and Christ.
London: Collins, 1968.
Terrien, Samuel.
The Psalms and Their Meaning for Today.
Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953.
Tillich, Paul.
The Courage to Be.
New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1952.
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The Eternal Now.
New York: Scribner, 1963.
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The New Being.
New York: Scribner, 1935.
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The Protestant Era.
Translated by James Luther Adams. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1948.
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The Shaking of the Foundations.
New York: Scribner, 1948.
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Systematic Theology,
vols. 1, 2, and 3. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1951–1963.
Toynbee, Arnold J.
Christianity Among the Religions of the World.
New York: Scribner, 1977.
Twain, Mark.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
New York: Barnes & Noble Classic Books, 1999. Originally published 1876.
Van Buren, Paul.
The Secular Meaning of the Gospel.
London: SCM Press, 1963.
Von Rad, Gerhard.
Genesis.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1972.
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Old Testament Theology.
New York: Harper and Row, 1965.
Warner, Marina.
Alone of All Her Sex.
New York: Knopf, 1976.
Wemple, Suzanne Fonay.
Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500–900.
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
Zachner, Robert Charles.
The Comparison of Religion.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1967.
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The Concise Encyclopedia of Living Faiths.
Boston: Hawthorne Books, 1959.
The Old Testament
Genesis 1:1–2:3
Genesis 1:2
Genesis 1:6–8
Genesis 1:9–10
Genesis 1:24, NRSV
Genesis 1:25
Genesis 1:26
Genesis 1:27
Genesis 1:28
Genesis 2:18–19, KJV
Genesis 2:18–23
Genesis 2:19–20
Genesis 2:20b–23, KJV
Genesis 4:8
Genesis 6:20
Genesis 7–8
Genesis 7:2
Genesis 9:21
Genesis 11:1–9
Genesis 11
Genesis 14:17
Genesis 17:10
Genesis 18:1
Genesis 18
Genesis 19:4–5
Genesis 19:4–5, KJV
Genesis 19:6–8, KJV
Genesis 19:38
Genesis 20:1
Genesis 29:1–20
Genesis 29:17
Genesis 32
Genesis 35:21
Genesis 37–50
Genesis 37:28
Genesis 38:9, KJV
Exodus 1:22
Exodus 3:14
Exodus 12:48
Exodus 13, 16:35
Exodus 13:19
Exodus 16:4–5
Exodus 16:4ff.
Exodus 16:31ff.
Exodus 20:17
Exodus 20ff.
Exodus 21:7
Exodus 35:2
Leviticus 11:7–8
Leviticus 12:2
Leviticus 12:3
Leviticus 15:19–24
Leviticus 18:19
Leviticus 18:22
Leviticus 18
Leviticus 19:19, NRSV
Leviticus 19:27
Leviticus 20:13
Leviticus 20
Leviticus 23:5–8
Leviticus 23:15–21
Leviticus 23:23–25
Leviticus 23:26–32
Leviticus 24:13–14
Leviticus 25:44
Numbers 10:11–13:26
Numbers 20:1–122
Numbers 27:14
Numbers 33:36–27
Deuteronomy 1:46
Deuteronomy 21:18–21
Deuteronomy 23:1
Deuteronomy 34
Joshua 10:12–15
Joshua 13:14
Joshua 17:7–18
Judges 11:16–17
Judges 13:5
Judges 19
1 Samuel 9:15–10:13
1 Samuel 9
1 Samuel 15:3
1 Samuel 16:1–13
2 Samuel 1ff.
2 Samuel 12:5
2 Samuel 12:7, KJV
2 Samuel 15–7, 17:23
2 Samuel 20:5ff
2 Samuel 24:6
2 Samuel
1 Kings 1
1 Kings 12:8–16, 17:8–16
1 Kings 12ff.
1 Kings 16:21ff.
1 Kings 17:17–24
1 Kings 17ff.
1 Kings 19:4–18
1 Kings 21:12–13
2 Kings 2:1–12
2 Kings 4:8–37
2 Kings 6:5
2 Kings 19:14–28
2 Kings 21:1ff.
2 Kings 21:14–15
2 Kings 21:18
2 Kings 21:23–24
2 Kings 22:3–13
2 Kings 23:15–27
2 Kings 23:21–23
2 Kings 24–25
Psalms 2:7
Psalms 8:5, KJV
Psalms 18:2, 19:14, 31:2, 42:9, 62:2, 71:3
Psalms 22
Psalms 29:8
Psalms 41:9
Psalms 77:19
Psalms 80:17
Psalms 124:10–30
Psalms 124:29
Psalms 130:2 BCP
Psalms 137:3
Psalms 137:8–9, 18–19
Psalms 139:7–12
Proverbs 8:22–31
Proverbs 11:29
Proverbs 12:20
Proverbs 13:24
Proverbs 22:15
Proverbs 23:13–14
Proverbs 25:21–22
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Ecclesiastes 3:19
Isaiah 4:6, 25:4
Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah 11:1
Isaiah 29:10
Isaiah 35:5–6, NRSV
Isaiah 43:16
Isaiah 53:5
Isaiah 53:6
Isaiah 53
Isaiah 55:8–9
Jeremiah 27:5
Jeremiah 31:39
Ezekiel 37:1–15
Ezekiel 44:2
Daniel 2:34
Daniel 6
Daniel 7:13
Micah 4:8
Micah 6:8
Zechariah 9–14
Zechariah 11:4–14
Zechariah 11:7–17, 14:21
Zechariah 11:12–13
Malachi 1:11
Apocrypha
4 Maccabeas 2:2, 3:17
The New Testament
Matthew 1:1–17
Matthew 1:18–25
Matthew 1:20
Matthew 1:23
Matthew 2:1–12
Matthew 2:16–18
Matthew 2:23
Matthew 2
Matthew 5:43
Matthew 5:44
Matthew 6:28
Matthew 8:2–3
Matthew 8:4
Matthew 8:18–27
Matthew 9:13
Matthew 10:2–4
Matthew 12:30
Matthew 12:40, 27:63
Matthew 14:13ff.
Matthew 14:16ff.
Matthew 14:25
Matthew 18:12
Matthew 19:7
Matthew 19:28
Matthew 20:1–16
Matthew 22:24
Matthew 22:43–45
Matthew 25:31–46
Matthew 26:6–13
Matthew 26:15
Matthew 26:24
Matthew 26:51–54
Matthew 27:3–10
Matthew 27:5
Matthew 27:24–25
Matthew 27:24
Matthew 27:25
Matthew 27:62ff.
Matthew 28:16–20
Matthew 28:20, KJV
Matthew 28
Mark 1:1–11
Mark 1:23–26
Mark 1:44
Mark 2:27
Mark 3:14–19
Mark 3:19
Mark 4:39
Mark 5:25–34
Mark 6:3
Mark 6:30ff.
Mark 6:37ff.
Mark 6:48
Mark 8:31, 9:31, 10:34
Mark 9:14–18
Mark 9:40
Mark 12:36–37
Mark 14:3–9
Mark 14: 10–11, KJV
Mark 14:20, NRSV
Mark 14:21
Mark 14:44–45
Mark 15:39
Mark 16:8
Mark 16
Luke 1:1–4, 23
Luke 1:5–25
Luke 1:26–2:7
Luke 1:26–38
Luke 1:41–44
Luke 1:51
Luke 2:8–14
Luke 2:41–52
Luke 3:23–38
Luke 5:14
Luke 6:15
Luke 6:16
Luke 6:27–28
Luke 7:36–50
Luke 8:22–25
Luke 9:12ff.
Luke 9:13ff.
Luke 9:38–42
Luke 9:50
Luke 10:9
Luke 10:29–37
Luke 10:38–42
Luke 12:5
Luke 14:12–24
Luke 15:4
Luke 15:11ff.
Luke 17:16
Luke 17:21
Luke 20:19–20
Luke 20:28
Luke 20:42–44
Luke 22:3
Luke 22:6
Luke 22:22
Luke 22:28–30
Luke 22:53
Luke 24:1–12
Luke 24:13–27
Luke 24:27
Luke 24:50–53
Luke 24
John 1:1
John 1:11
John 1:17, NRSV
John 1:45, 6:42
John 1
John 2:19
John 6:1–13
John 6:9ff.
John 6:35
John 8:1–11
John 8:12
John 8:28
John 8:39
John 8:44
John 8:58
John 9:22
John 10:7
John 10:10
John 10:11
John 11:1–44
John 11:25
John 12:1–8
John 12:6
John 12:42
John 13:18
John 13:26, NRSV
John 13:27
John 13:27, NRSV
John 13:30
John 14:6
John 14:22
John 15:5
John 15:6
John 18:2–9
John 18:10–11
John 20:19–29
John 20
Acts 1:1–11
Acts 1:8, KJV
Acts 1:15–18
Acts 1:16–18
Acts 1
Acts 2:1–4
Acts 2, 64
Acts 7:58, 8:1
Acts 8:26–40
Acts 9:1ff.
Acts 9:2
Acts 9:18
Acts 10:9–16
Acts 10:34ff
Acts 11:26
Acts 15
Acts 16:14
Acts 18:2
Acts 22:3
Romans 1:1–4
Romans 1:21, 26–27
Romans 1:21, 26–27, KJV
Romans 1:22–27
Romans 7:6, NRSV
Romans 7:18–19, 24–25
Romans 7:23
Romans 7:23ff.
Romans 7:24
Romans 8:35–39
Romans 8:39
Romans 11:7–8
Romans 16:3
1 Corinthians 1:11
1 Corinthians 5:10, 6:9
1 Corinthians 7:9
1 Corinthians 11:2–16
1 Corinthians 11:5ff.
1 Corinthians 11:8–9
1 Corinthians 11:23–24
1 Corinthians 11
1 Corinthians 13:12
1 Corinthians 14:34
1 Corinthians 15:1–6
2 Corinthians 5:17
2 Corinthians 5:18–19
2 Corinthians 5:19
Galatians 1:13–17
Galatians 1:19
Galatians 2:20
Galatians 3:26–28
Galatians 3:28
Galatians 4:4
Galatians 5:12
Ephesians 6:1–3
Ephesians 6:5
Philippians 3:5–6
Colossians 3:20
Colossians 3:22
Colossians 4:1
Colossians 4:15
1 Timothy 1:10
1 Timothy 2:12, NRSV
2 Peter 2:6
1 John 4:16
Jude 1:1
Jude 1:3
Jude 1:7
Revelation 3:19