I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

The virgin birth understood as literal biology makes Christ's divinity as traditionally understood impossible. Spong's calendar has him lecturing around the world. Haines Archdeacon) ISBN 1-878282-14-X
1987 – Consciousness and Survival: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the possibility of Life Beyond Biological Death (edited by John S.

He calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and traditional doctrines. John Shelby "Jack" Spong (born June 16 1931) is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church.