Marcus Borg

More on Marcus Borg

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 12:30 — G. Atkinson

Some of our CCbloggers have written about Marcus Borg in the past.

Drew Smith of has written an article on Marcus Borg for the Society of Biblical Literature. He tells us what happened the semester he put Marcus Borg on his student's reading list.

Bob Cornwall reviewed Borg's book "First Christmas."

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My conversation with Marcus Borg

Thu, 10/02/2008 - 15:27 — Gordon Atkinson

As an introduction to the conversation I recorded with Marcus Borg, let me briefly introduce his thinking and explain why he is such a controversial figure, certainly among conservative evangelical Christians, but for many mainline theologians as well. I'm doing this for the benefit of non-clergy who may read this and not know Marcus Borg.

A recording of the conversation is available at the bottom of this post.

It all has to do with how you read the gospels. Most Christians in the world read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as literal accounts of what happened in the life of Jesus of Nazareth.