![]() ![]() The wholeness comes, then, in his hopeful teaching of what "belief" (in its original verbal use as valuing or holding dear) calls forth from us in response. There's this wonderful balance he has, where he writes with complete clarity in each book about what history and science both can and cannot do for theology and our historical understanding of the man who walked the region of Galilee more than 2000 years ago. When I finish his books, I feel both taught and fed. It's weird! For all the griping about intellectual rigidity and unjustified certainty - Borg falls into the trap he critiques, in my opinion.) Yet! For progressive christians like Borg, they retain elements of fundamentalism in their certainty about the historicity of Jesus and the early Jesus-movement. For the progressive, the world is in absolute flux. (PS: because I'm feeling punchy, I want to note that it is curious to me how some progressive christians want to extend or abolish cultural / biological boundaries and binaries, as well as critique and dismantle unjustified beliefs. I'm sure they make great conversation partners However, I'd love to read the book in which Borg and N.T. That kind of certainty about the human brain is intellectually sloppy. I was grumpy toward the end of the book because Borg kept placing such strict limits on what Jesus could mean by what he said, and who he could be in light of his culture. Borg kinda annoyed me when he would say things like, "Jesus thought this exact thought / way, because of his geographical and cultural landscape." I'm fine with historical criticism (eh, not totally, but enough not to fuss too much about it), but I really dislike the certainty some scholars have, like Borg, in their ability to glean the complex, mutable, and (to me) unreachable psyches of historical figures. Really interesting in most ways, but overreaching in others. His doctor's degree is from Oxford University, and he has lectured widely overseas (England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Israel and South Africa) and in North America, including the Chautauqua and Smithsonian Institutions. His work has been translated into eleven languages: German, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Russian, and French. A Fellow of the Jesus Seminar, he has been national chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and co-chair of its International New Testament Program Committee, and is past president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars. Internationally known in both academic and church circles as a biblical and Jesus scholar, he was Hundere Chair of Religion and Culture in the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University until his retirement in 2007.ĭescribed by The New York Times as "a leading figure in his generation of Jesus scholars," he has appeared on NBC's "Today Show" and “Dateline,” PBS's "Newshour," ABC’s “Evening News” and “Prime Time” with Peter Jennings, NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, and several National Geographic programs. ![]() Borg is Canon Theologian at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, OR. On May 31, 2009, Borg was installed as the first canon theologian at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. 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, the Reverend Canon Marianne Wells-Borg, serves as a priest and directs a spiritual development program at the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon. Wright had studied under the same professor and many years later Borg and Wright were to share in co-authoring The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, an amicable study in contrast. ![]() He did graduate work at Union Theological Seminary and obtained masters and DPhil degrees at Oxford under G. After a close reading of the Book of Amos and its overt message of social equality he immediately began writing with an increasingly liberal stance and was eventually invited to discontinue writing his articles due to his new-found liberalism. While at Moorhead he was a columnist for the school paper and held forth as a conservative. He grew up in the 1940s in North Dakota and attended Concordia College, Moorhead, a small liberal arts school in Moorhead, Minnesota. ![]() Borg was born into a Lutheran family of Swedish and Norwegian descent, the youngest of four children. ![]()
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