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Ebook About Using approaches from the Hebrew interpretive tradition to discern the actual events surrounging Jesus' death, Bishop Spong questions the hitorical validity of literal narrative concerned the Ressurection. He asserts that the resurrection story was born in an experience that opened the disciples' eyes to the reality of God and the meaning of Jesus of Nazareth. Spong traces the Christian origins of anti-Semitism to the Church's fabrication of the ultimate Jewish scapegoat, Judas Iscariot. He affirms the inclusiveness of the Christian message and emphasizes the necessity of mutual integrity and respect among Christians and Jews.Book Resurrection: Myth or Reality? Review :
The book "Resurrection: Myth or Reality?" by Episcopalian Bishop John Shelby Spong will challenge even the most devout believer in Jesus Christ, especially those at the Conservative and Fundamentalist end of the Christian faith spectrum for whom the Bible is inerrent. Fundamentalists label Bishop Spong as a radical, even a heretic or atheist, in his modern Christian faith writings just as Jesus was labeled a radical in his teachings two-thousand yeas ago (e.g., "turn the other cheek").So, was Jesus' resurrection myth or reality? This reviewer will not give a detailed analysis of the entire book but will cut to the crux of the book.First, Bishop John Spong flat out states that the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ, as portrayed in the Gospels, is absolutely incorrect. The reason for this, as is for most of the Midrashic writings in the New Testament, is that the Gospels were incorrectly interpreted when very early Western / Eastern Christian pundits literalized the Gospel texts in the early First Century C.E. as objective, linear history. As a result, the Gospels, as well as much of the New Testament, have been incorrectly interpreted and taught to believers for two millennia.Why? The Gospels were written by Jewish authors for Jewish worshipers in the synagogue, who understood the Midrashic-writing style, story telling and teaching. These were never intended to record the objective, linear history of the very early Judaeo / Christian faith!The crux of Spong's book is found in pages 243-257. Jesus' crucifixion occurred in Jerusalem. Both the New Testament and secular, historical writings attest to this fact. Upon Jesus' crucifixion, Peter, John and Andrew fearfully fled north some 90+ miles to Galilee. Over the next six months, Bishop Spong says Simon (Peter) was the main character in the very early development of the Christian faith. Peter was extremely depressed, not making sense of his time with Jesus only to find Jesus executed and buried as a common criminal. Peter almost came to the conclusion that Jesus was in fact what the Jewish religious establishment said he was. But something in Peter's spirit told him differently.At the end of this six-month period of time in Galilee, it all came together for Peter. Jesus did not die because he was criminal according to the Jewish religious establishment but in fact died in order to set man free -- God's plan all along. It took Peter a long time to come to this conclusion. Peter began to understand Jesus was God's conduit of love and acceptance in a hurting world, both then and now. Peter recalled a teaching attributed to Jesus: "Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for the hear" (Matthew 13:16, NKJV).Peter began to "see". For him, the resurrection is in "the seeing". Hence, according to Bishop John Spong, Peter was the first to experience "resurrection" some 90 miles from the location of the crucifixion in Jerusalem six months before.In "seeing", Jesus said: "go and feed my sheep". The resurrection experience for Peter was in "the seeing" and carrying the message to other disciples and to serve / help those less fortunate. So, it is today two-thousand years later. Spong points out that all to many believers and individuals in high-level ecclesiastical positions today never "see", as evidenced by the lack of fruit produced in their lives.Thus, the resurrection is an individual personal experience, in "spiritual seeing" and encounting God, not a physical resucitation from being nailed to a wooden cross. That is what this reviewer has recently experienced in his life: a powerful spiritual awakening in "seeing"!Epilogue:In the end, I decided to walk away from Christianity in its entirity. I concluded its goal was and is to control its adherents despite its dogma of love taught over two millennia. Its tools are guilt, shame, judgment and fear as exemplified by many of its practitioners across Christendom. Spong made a strong case against these in the book. Simply put, in my opinion, Christianity no longer serves the spiritual needs of the thinking, postmodern man or woman of the 21st Century.I based my decision on the book reviewed here and Spong's excellent book "Christianity Must Change or Die". Part I, APPROACHING THE RESURRECTION, opens with an excellent chapter on Midrash, which is a form of story-telling in which the Jewish scriptures would be searched for a story that was in some way comparable to an event, as an example, in the life of Jesus. It was the first time I really understood what that word means.Part II, EXAMINING THE BIBLICAL TEXTS, deals with how the biblical writers present the resurrection. As a starting point, Spong writes, "I explore this territory as a believing Christian who will not literalize the details of my faith story" (p.107). I have decided it's easier being a unbeliever than a "believer in exile." It's hard to draw the line between what literally might have happened, what is midrash and what is pure fabrication to advance a particular agenda. Believers have it easy - they just accept it all, no matter how much sense it may not make; so do agnostics, who just throw out the baby with the bathwater. And then there are those of us who want to change the bathwater without throwing out the baby! THAT'S the difficult task!Part III goes into INTERPRETIVE IMAGES, such as the image of the atoning sacrifice in the Book of Hebrews (excellent treatise!), the Suffering Servant of 2 Isaiah (chapter 12, which was a bit of a stretch for me, yet in a way too simplistic), the Son of Man in the book of Daniel (a surprisingly interesting chapter).Part IV CLUES THAT LEAD US TO EASTER. The first clue is that the resurrection happened in Galilee and not Jerusalem, which presented a whole new and strange idea for me and which took a rather convoluted route to pursue. It made me shake my head as if to say, "whaaaaat?" (I haven't the foggiest idea how to summarize that idea!) The fifth clue, "The Burial Tradition as Mythology" was a superb chapter! More midrash: the words of Jesus on the Cross used by Matthew and Mark, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" is word-for-word verse 1 of Psalm 22 - casting lots for Jesus' garments is also from Psalm 22 (v.18) - Jesus keeping silent before Pilate and the Sanhedrin (Mark 14:61) harkens back to Isa. 53:7, "He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to slaughter.... like a sheep before its shearer...he opened not his mouth." These are but a few of the midrash references.Part V, RECONSTRUCTING THE EASTER MOMENT. Chapter 19, "But Did It Happen," started out as a gem of rhetoric. Spong writes (p.237-8): "Speculation about what happened cannot replace the conviction that something real transpired.... If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter. I will not allow my twentieth-century mind to be compromised by the literalism of another era.... We can reject the literal narratives about the resurrection and still not reject the truth and power of the resurrection event itself.... We would not have the legends unless there had been a moment so indescribable that legends became necessary to explain it."But towards the end of this chapter, Spong's words failed me. Suddenly "God" seemed more like the traditional "Father in Heaven" (or so his words sounded to me). Sometimes Spong tries so hard to explain himself and sometimes gets a little mystical-sounding, which leaves me behind... He writes (p.256): "God had in fact come out of heaven to dwell in Jesus...." Somehow this doesn't sound like Spong's description of God as the Ground of All Being - but I admit I'm still struggling with being able to relate to that non-external, non-theistic "God."Chapter 20, "Grounding the Speculation in Scripture," was a very difficult chapter to follow. I will have to read it a few more times to make any sense out of it. 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