Sunset

I have just finished reading Bishop John Shelby Spong’s Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World. It will now go on a nearby shelf and will serve me well as a reference book.

Bishop Spong discusses the books of the bible in their historical order and relates their significance to us. The main thing I got from reading the book is his distinction between history and interpretative narrative—a very useful distinction. The history that fundamentalists extol in the bible is actually not history. It is interpretative narrative. Continue reading →