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Marcus Borg

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'''Marcus Borg''' is a contemporary Jesus Seminar Jesus Scholar and religion religious author. He holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University and is Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture, an endowed chair at Oregon State University. He lectures widely and occasionally appears in the national news media. He is currently president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars and a columnist for [http://www.beliefnet.com/author/author_52.html Beliefnet]. Borg was raised in the Scandinavian Lutheran church in 1940s North Dakota, and attended Concordia College, Moorhead, a small liberal arts school in Moorhead, MN. He did graduate work at Union Theological Seminary, and obtained masters and Ph.D. degrees at Oxford under George Caird. Anglican Bishop Tom Wright N.T. Wright had studied under the same professor, and many years later Borg and Wright were to share in coauthoring ''The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions'', an amicable study in contrast. Following a period of religious questioning in his mid thirties, and numinous experiences similar to those described by Rudolf Otto, Borg became active in the Episcopal church, in which his wife serves as a priest. Borg advocates entering into relationship ''with'' God as more important than belief ''about'' God. He has a panentheism panentheist understanding of God, which sees God as both indwelling in everything and transcendent. He teaches that a historical metaphorical approach to the Bible is more meaningful for today's world than is Biblical inerrancy Biblical literalism,

Bibliography
*''The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith'' (2003) *''Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally'' (2001) *''God at 2000'' (editor, eith Ross Mackenzie, 2001) *''The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions''. Co-authored with N. Thomas Wright, 1999, ISBN 0-06-060875-7 *''Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?: A Debate Between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan'', 1998 (Marcus Borg, Respondent) *''Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus'', rev. ed., 1998 (originally published in 1984) *''Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings'', ed., 1997 *''The God We Never Knew'', 1997 *''The Lost Gospel Q'', ed., 1996 *''Jesus at 2000'', ed., 1996 *''The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels'', co-authored with John Dominic Crossan and Stephen Patterson, ed. by Hershel Shanks, 1994 *''Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship'', 1994 *''Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time'', 1994, ISBN 0-06-060917-6 *''Jesus: A New Vision'', 1987 *''The Year of Luke'', 1976 *''Conflict and Social Change'', 1971

External links

- Me & Jesus: The Journey Home, an autobiographical sketch by Marcus Borg
- About Marcus Borg
- Professional Credentials
- IMDb Entry Category:Biblical scholars Borg, Marcus

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