Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith...

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith | Marcus J. Borg | Finally------

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	Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith Marcus J. Borg HarperOne, 1995 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 89 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"READ THIS BOOK !!!"

Borg says, "GOD does not refer to a supernatural being 'out there' - GOD refers to the sacred at the center of existence, the holy mystery that is all around us and within us. God is the nonmaterial ground and source and presence in which 'we live and move and have our being.'
"...the key truth about Jesus: that in addition to being deeply involved in the social world of the everyday, he was also grounded in the world of the Spirit. ...Jesus' relationship to the Spirit was the source of everything that he was."

Borg states that what they are teaching in seminary is NOT what they are preaching in church - "the popular image of Jesus as the divine savior who knew himself to be the Son of God and who offered up his life for the sins of the world - was not historically true....that was not what the historical Jesus was like."
"The basis for this mind-boggling realization was the understanding of the gospels that has developed over the last two hundred years of biblical scholarship...the gospels are neither divine documents nor straightforward historical records. They are not inspired directly from God....nor are they eyewitness accounts..."
"...the gospels represent the developing traditions of the early Christian movement. Through careful comparative study of the gospels, one can see these authors at work, modifying and adding to the traditions they received...the traditions about Jesus were adapted and applied to the changing circumstances of the early Christian movement. As the decades passed, the early Christian movement increasingly spoke of Jesus as divine and as having the qualities of God."

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I have finally found the explanation I can understand.Thank God for theologians who are honest and can stray from the "Fundamentalist,dogmatic approach" and thoughtfully find their own paths......If I could write a book I would have wanted to write this one.

Christ Doesn't Change; Our Understanding Changes

A book that will make you think--not a bad thing for Christians to do.

This book looks at our understanding of Jesus and how it changes as we age. As Charles Britt, a very wise man once said, "All we as Christians are asked to do is "To Commit What We Understand of Ourselves to What we Understand of Christ...." We will change as human beings and our concept and perception of Christ will change..."

That's what this book is about: our changing concepts of Jesus. He doesn't change; our understanding of Him changes as we age and grow in life experience.

One important point: This book, while very good, is for those who have already started the journey of thought and faith. Beginners might want to start with "The Jesus I Never Knew" by Philip Yancey, then come back to this book. Both are well worth reading--this one is a little deeper. Deeper thought is required here. "The Jesus I Never Knew" is a better primer for this book.

Yancey is a writer; Borg is a theologian. Both have their places.

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