The Easter Moment

by John Shelby Spong

The Easter Moment tells the moving story of Spong's friendship with a young physician dying of cancer and how that relationship shed new light on the years of study the author has devoted to the great mystery of what actually happened on that long-ago Easter when the whole history of the human race was changed. Spong is willing to ask tough and searching questions and to come up with startling and significant answers to what happened after death that first fateful Easter, and what that means for thinking about life after death today.

Genres: Religion, Theology

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

John Shelby Spong was the Episcopal bishop of Newark before his retirement in 2000. As a leading spokesperson for an open, scholarly, and progressive Christianity, Bishop Spong has taught at Harvard and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has also lectured at universities, conference centers, and churches in North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific. His books include: A New Christianity for a New World, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Resurrection: Myth or Reality? Why Christianity Must Change or Die, and his autobiography, Here I Stand.

Reviews

[jeffrey quinzer · Rating 5 out of 5]

A moving and erudite testimony of a devout Christian that challenges the reader to go beyond the literal reading of the Bible to an expansive understanding of what we are created to be. It will be threatening to many and challenging to all. It acknowledges Biblical contradictions and the inadequacy of language in describing the truth of what he terms the Easter Moment and invitees the reader to appreciate the reality of that living moment to affirm life, love and personal rebirth everyday. If you have never read any of Rev. Spring's other wonderful books may I suggest you start with this one.







A moving and deeply felt testimony of a devout Christian that challenges the reader to go beyond the literal reading of the Bible to a more expansive interpretation of what it communicates. It will be threatening to some and challenging to all. It acknowledges scriptural contradictions and the inadequacy of language in communicating the truth of what he terms the Easter Moment. The reader is invited to explore and experience that Moment in the present as an affirmation of life, love and personal rebirth. If one has never read any of Rev. Spring's other books, may I suggest you start with this one.

[Willa Guadalupe Grant · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another good book from this author- I enjoy his opinions even when I don't agree with him because they cause me to look at & understand what I DO belive.