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The fourth gospel : tales of a Jewish mystic by John Shelby Spong is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and popular proponent of a modern, scholarly and authentic Christianity, argues that this last gospel to be written was misinterpreted by the framers of the fourth-century creeds to be a literal account of the life of Jesus when in fact it is a literary, interpretive retelling of the events in Jesus' life through the medium of fictional characters, from Nicodemus and Lazarus to the "Beloved Disciple." The Fourth Gospel was designed first to place Jesus into
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Shelby Spong
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062198167
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (198 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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