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Title: Pure garbage
Review: This book, like all of Spong's writing, is based on an oversimplied understanding of outdated scholarship. As such, it has no merit and is not worth the money or the time spent on reading it.I have no problem with exploring the works of liberal thinkers. I've spent time with Schleiermacher, Tillich, and Bultmann and read the critiques of classical Christianity offered by Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Feuerbach, and others. Those are good examples of criticisms of the Bible and orthodox Christianity; Spong is not. He may be popular, but the crowd with which he is popular is simply the mirror image of the Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson fanbase. The "open-minded" Spong not only misrepresents the orthdoxy he attacks, but he is also just about the poorest representation of his own liberal tradition.
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