Posted on 01/27/2015 11:21:03 AM PST by Borges
Marcus J. Borg, a scholar who popularized a liberal intellectual approach to Christianity with his lectures and books about Jesus as a historical figure, died on Wednesday at his home in Powell Butte, Ore. He was 72.
His publisher, HarperOne, said the cause was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Professor Borg was among a group of scholars, known as the Jesus Seminar, who set off an uproar with its very public efforts to discern collectively which of Jesus’ acts and utterances could be confirmed as historically true, and which were probably myths.
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Betting he knows better now.
I'm sure that's all been cleared up for him now.
LOL!!
“Progressive Christianity”
Hmmmmmm......”Evil Christianity”
Whodathunk ?
This fellow was instrumental in damaging a lot of people.
Today he’s been “assimilated.”
Doctor speak for "we haven't a clue".
This is one of those Jesus Seminar Fellows who among other things, color codes the New Testament by employing colored beads dropped into voting boxes in order to permit all members to vote in secret.
The following ratings provided by the Jesus Seminar scholars has recently been offered:
Red means Jesus said it;
Pink means it’s close to what He said;
Gray means He didn’t say it in this form but there are echoes of His teaching in it; and
Black means the saying didn’t come from Him at all
For example, in Matthew’s version of the Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13), “Our Father” is red. “Hallowed be your name,” “Thy Kingdom come,” “Give us this day our daily bread”, and “forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors” are all pink.
“Lead us not into temptation” is gray, while “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” and “but deliver us from the evil one” are all black.
In other instances, even though the commentary notes that the Fellows found one part of a passage much more likely to be authentic than another, the text is not subdivided but all colored pink (red plus gray) or gray (pink plus black)—for example, the parable of the wedding banquet (Matt. 22:1-14). No explanation is ever given for this inconsistency.
1John 2:22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.
2 Timothy 2:12 If we endure hardship, we will reign with him. If we deny him, he will deny us.
Mr. Borg now has his answer, sadly.
Of interest
From the article: In his last book, the memoir “Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most” (2014), Professor Borg wrote: Imagine that Christianity is about loving God. Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.”
I mean, this is news to anyone?
And, he was not an unbeliever, it seems he was never an unbeliever, maybe that is news to some.
I don’t understand your post. Certainly anyone who doesn’t believe Jesus said a majority of what the Gospels report that He said, could hardly be considered a believer in Jesus. If it is true that much of what is recorded in the Bible is myth how could anyone reliably separate the myths from reality? Even the Borg quote you cite doesn’t align with the majority of Christ’s teaching. Jesus taught incessantly on the Kingdom of God and on the reward that comes to those who enter into the Kingdom by believing in Him and all that He taught.
My favorite Fr. McBrien moment was at the election of Pope Benedict XVI. The shocked and bewildered look on his face, captured on live television, was priceless.
“I mean, this is news to anyone?”
To me that sounds like what progressives do to conservatives: state that we think something that we certainly do not & then call us hateful based on their misinterpretation of our beliefs.
I dated a religious studies student at Oregon State years ago. Marcus Borg was one of his favorites. I think he even bought my one of his books. Might still have it around here somewhere, but I never did read it.
Betting he knows better now.
LOL! Good one!
Sweets to the sweet, if you see what I did there.
We’re all going to have our turn to die, but I’d sure hate to be in his place.
Not to me.
You’re always talking about Higher Criticism!
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