John Shelby Spong challenges much of the traditional mythology that has for so long surrounded the Jesus of history, from the tale of his miraculous birth to a virgin, to the account of his cosmic ascension into the sky at the end of his life. Spong proposes a new way of understanding the divinity of Christ: both divinity and humanity are human concepts, and what we call the divine is simply the ultimate dimension of a fulfilled humanity. This may be the book that finally brings the pious and the secular into a meaningful dialogue, opening the door to a living Christianity in the post-Christian world.