Study Guide to John Shelby Spong A New Christianity for a New World.   ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Session 2 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | General

 

Additional Information for Session Two:
An Idea with a History

Creation Spirituality Matthew Fox	The University of Creation Spirituality has links to a range of materials, including the writings and other activities of Matthew Fox.
FFForum	Check the FFForum site for the following: Paper by Blaine C. White, and subsequent discussion. The thread on Dean Andrew Furlong is also relevant to this session.
Journal of Liberal Religion	An online theological journal devoted to the study of Liberal Religion. Publishd by Meadville Lombard Theological School. For session two, see especially the article by Davidson Loehr: "Salvation by Character: How UUs can Find the Religious Center." JLR 1/2 (Spring 2000)
Sallie McFague	Sallie McFague is the Carpenter Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The Religion Online site has several items that refer to McFague, as well as the following items by her: An Earthly Theological Agenda The World as God's Body
Keith McPaul	Links to materials used with an NCNW study group at Maleny, Queensland. Supplementary material for a preliminary session, and also for each session other than session four: 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Michael Morwood	An Australian Catholic Priest and a member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart for 36 years, Moorwood resigned from both positions in 1998 after the Archdiocese of Melbourne banned his best-selling book Tomorrow's Catholic: Understanding God and Jesus in a New Millennium. He was also banned from teaching or talking publicly about its contents. The Michael Morwood website includes material relating to his banning, as well information about his publications: 1997: Tomorrow's Catholic 2000: Is Jesus God
Bishop John Shelby Spong	Several of the items on the major Bishop Spong sites have information relevant to this session: CTM BeliefNet.com Diocese of Newark: John Shelby Spong Unofficial Fan Club
To Take a Risk	Poem by an unknown author. Contributed by Jan Snook (Toowoomba, Australia) who comments: I believe that the following poem connects well with Spong's third definition of a non-theistic God, ie "Being". On pages 72-73, Spong states: "God is Being -- the reality underlying everything that is. To worship this God you must be willing to risk all, abandoning your defences and your self-imposed or culturally constructed security systems."

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