Shelby Spong in Land of Oz
Some would question which planet the good bishop is on. But actually, he's doing a promotional tour downunder for his new book.
In this article from the Melbourne Age, you can read Spong's views on God, Christ, the bible, prayer, ethics, sexuality and conservative Christians.
Having just spent a week with BSF in the psalms, which are regarded as model prayers (words given us by the Holy Spirit for us to use in many different circumstances - when we mightn't have the right words ourselves), Spong's views on prayer are interesting:
In prayer Christians engage with God, in praise and petition, in meditation. Spong sees it as somewhat less elevated. "I don’t believe you can manipulate God to get your will done. I refer to most prayer as adult letters to Santa Claus: 'dear God, I've been a very good boy, please do A, B, C and D for me'."
Spong claims to be a Christian, but rejects effectively everything (including the divinity of Christ and any notion of inspired scripture) that defines Christianity. The very extreme end of a very wide spectrum...
# posted by geoff @ 4:43 pm
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