Books by Marcus J. Borg
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review 1: Borg and Crossan put forward the theory that the original Paul wrote perhaps seven of the New Testament letters that bear his name and that subsequent Epistles and sermons were written by other writers in the division of the early church that was founded by Paul. I found the arg...
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review 1: The twist to this book is that rather than Christian words being "lost," as in suffered distortion over the course of history, those words simply failed to appeal to the Christian audience Borg would like to appeal to in their traditional/orthodox usage.Borg claims to be going ba...
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review 1: Borg was ingenious in folding into the novel some of the most potent insights of his scholarship into the historical Jesus and his nonfiction work on the heart of a transformative, parabolic Christianity. The book was so autobiographical that I had to wonder whether Borg, like M...
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review 1: It was a refreshing and enlightening experience reading this edition of the whole New Testament, with a historical introduction to each book, in the order scholars think they were written. Professor Borg provides a short helpful summary introduction giving some cultural and hist...