Photo consists of boys and girls sitting at their desks drawing, while a teacher stands in the background. Victoria is on the far left, then Olive, and Peter is the boy just right tof the middle. "This school was burnt", is written on the back of the photo.
At head of title: A New Reformation of the Church's Faith and Practice".
"[By] John Shelby Spong".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Preface dated Newark, 1998 / John Shelby Spong -- On Saying the Christian Creed with Honesty -- The Meaning of Exile and How We Got There -- In Search of God: Is Atheism the Only Alternative to Theism ? -- Beyond Theism to New God Images -- Discovering Anew the Jesus of the New Testament -- Jesus as Rescuer: An Image That Has to Go -- The Christ as Spirit Person -- What Think Ye of Christ ? Where the Human Enters the Divine -- The Meaning of Prayer in a World with No External Deity -- A New Basis for Ethics in a New Age -- The Emerging Church: Reading the Signs Present Today -- The Future Church: A Speculative Dream -- Eternal Life Apart from Heaven and Hell -- A Final Word -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.