Quotes About Marcus J. Borg

The point: only a small minority of Christians and for only a brief period of time have taught biblical inerrancy and the sole authority of the Bible. So how and why has it become "orthodox" Christianity for about half of American Protestants?

Oberammergau in Bavaria.

5.  One text, though, does speak of a man's "womb" being moved: Genesis 43.30.

Jesus's vivid experience of the reality of Spirit radically challenges our culture's way of seeing reality.

It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that fear is a more powerful political motive in our society than compassion.

The conflict among Christians about whether or not Jesus was God is grounded in two different understandings of the Gospels—and the New Testament and the Bible as a whole.

Williams James, in his magnificent book The Varieties of Religious Experience—now one hundred years old.

The way of seeing and reading the Bible that I describe in the rest of this book leads to a way of being Christian that has very little to do with believing. Instead, what will emerge is a relational and sacramental understanding of the Christian life.

Another Q saying uses language from the prophet Isaiah to signal that the activity of Jesus points to a time of deliverance.

Rather, the language of divine agency here emphasizes the theme of God's grace: God provided the sacrifice.

The explicit description of the Bible as inerrant and infallible by fundamentalists and some conservative-evangelicals cannot claim to be the ancient and traditional voice of the church.

theologian Dorothee Soelle, who died in April 2003. It's a book I really commend to you. The main title is The Silent Cry. The subtitle is Mysticism and Resistance. The