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Book Review of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism : A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture

Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism : A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture
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Spong does half the job here -- explaining why Fundamentalist insistence on accepting every word of the Bible as literal, God-written truth must inevitably cause thinking people to turn away from belief in the text. But he falters by not being able to come up with a strong justification to believe in the divinity of Jesus or to accept the core teachings.