The Marcus J. Borg Foundation’s Mission Statement
Seeing Christianity Again
The Marcus J. Borg Foundation is committed to exploring a realistic and meaningful articulation of Christianity for the 21st Century building upon the historical and theological research and teachings of Marcus J. Borg. We will provide resources for study, conversation, and community building.
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Marcus Borg’s Books
Published Work
Marcus Borg has written / co-written 28 books about historical Jesus, modern Christianity, and other related progressive Christianity topics. Borg holds that traditional Christianity emphasizes God’s transcendence excessively. In books like, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to A More Authentic Contemporary Faith, Borg contends that how we think about God matters, and that the Christian tradition makes sense if understood at a deeper level. To learn more about Borg’s views, here is a list of his publishings and topics:
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Conflict and Social Change
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The year of Luke: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany
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Conflict
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Jesus: A New Vision
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The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels
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Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship
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Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
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The Lost Gospel Q: The Original Sayings of Jesus
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Jesus in 2000
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Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings
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The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic
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Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?: A Debate Between William Lane Craig
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Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not
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The Apocalyptic Jesus: A Debate
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God in 2000
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The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith
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Jesus: Uncovering the Life
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Living the Heart of Christianity: A Guide to Putting Your Faith into Action
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The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus’s Final Week in Jerusalem
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The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’ Birth
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Stricken by God?
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The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s
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Conversations with Scripture – The Gospel of Mark
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Putting Away Childish Things: A Tale of Modern Faith
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Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning
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Evolution of the Word: The New Testament in the Order the Books Were
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Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
This Month’s Featured Work
This month we feature: Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power – and How They Can Be Restored and Evolution of the Word: The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written
During this month some of our quotes on Facebook will be drawn from these two books to give you an introduction to them. Please download our study guide to help you with a few thoughts to prompt conversations about the books.
Continuing the Conversation
Remembering the morning Marc died, January 21, 2015. The night before Marc died I said to him, Honey, if there is any way you can be in touch with me after… Marc looked at me with dismay. Perhaps the way Jesus looked at his disciples, How long have I been with you and yet you
MOREWolfgang Stahlberg and his wife Liliana, and Marc and I were close friends. The friendship began with Marc and Wolfgang. Marcus was invited to speak at the church Wolfgang served, Messiah Community Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado. For years thereafter Marcus and Wolfgang exchanged ideas, hopes, concerns, open ended questions, shared
MOREJesus Lived Jesus was one of us. There is no question that Jesus lived. A scholar friend of mine put it this way: we know he died, therefore, we know he lived. The fact that Jesus of Nazareth was a real person is good news indeed. He saw possibilities in a time of war, oppression,
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