Marcus J. Borg war eine führende Persönlichkeit seiner Generation von Jesusforschern, bekannt für seine Interpretationen des frühen Christentums und der neutestamentlichen Schriften. Seine Arbeit konzentriert sich darauf, den historischen Jesus unter Schichten von Tradition und Theologie aufzudecken und so seine Botschaft für moderne Leser zugänglich zu machen. Borgs wissenschaftliche Arbeit befasste sich insbesondere mit Themen der sozialen Gerechtigkeit und der transformativen Kraft des Glaubens, wobei er oft einen Ansatz verfolgte, der intellektuelle Forschung mit spirituellem Wachstum verband. Sein Einfluss reicht weit über akademische Kreise hinaus und spricht Leser in und außerhalb von Kirchengemeinden an, indem er eine überzeugende Vision von Jesu Botschaft und ihrer Relevanz für die heutige Welt bietet.
Weitere Angaben Inhalt: Ein meditatives Buch mit den zentralen Aussagen von Jesus und Buddha zu Themen wie Liebe, erfülltes Leben, Glaubenserfahrungen. Verblüffend ähnlich sind die Botschaften der beiden Religionsstifter, deren Weisheit und Kraft sich in diesem zart und ästhetisch gestalteten Band voll entfaltet. Mit vielen ausdrucksstarken Farbfotos!
Worte, die unser Herz erleuchten. Parallele Aussagen der zwei großen Weisheitslehrer der Menschheit
Die Auseinandersetzung um die Bibel ist heute das eine Thema, das die Christen am meisten spaltet. Der Konflikt hat seine Ursache in den beiden völlig unterschiedlichen Arten, wie die Bibel gelesen wird. In den Formulierungen, die ich im weiteren Verlauf dieses Buches benutzen werde, handelt es sich um den Konflikt zwischen einer wörtlich-tatsächlichen Bibellektüre und einer historisch-metaphorischen Art, sie zu lesen.
World-renowned Jesus scholar Marcus J. Borg shows how we can live passionately as Christians in today's world by practicing the vital elements of Christian faith. For the millions of people who have turned away from many traditional beliefs about God, Jesus, and the Bible, but still long for a relevant, nourishing faith, Borg shows why the Christian life can remain a transforming relationship with God. Emphasizing the critical role of daily practice in living the Christian life, he explores how prayer, worship, Sabbath, pilgrimage, and more can be experienced as authentically life-giving practices. Borg reclaims terms and ideas once thought to be the sole province of evangelicals and fundamentalists: he shows that terms such as "born again" have real meaning for all Christians; that the "Kingdom of God" is not a bulwark against secularism but is a means of transforming society into a world that values justice and love; and that the Christian life is essentially about opening one's heart to God and to others.
By presenting the New Testament books in the order they were written, bestselling Bible scholar Marcus Borg reveals how spiritually and politically radical the early Jesus movement began and how it slowly became domesticated. Evolution of the Word is an incredible value: not only are readers getting a deeply insightful new book from the author of Speaking Christian and Jesus, but also the full-text of the New Testament—and one of the only Bibles organized in chronological order and including explanatory annotations that give readers a more informed understanding of the Scripture that is so close to their hearts and lives.
Marcus Borg sets out his deepest convictions about God and the Bible, and reveals how a series of mystical experiences helped to make him a champion of progressive, inclusive and politically engaged Christianity.
Using the best of biblical and historical scholarship, this title presents a fresh understanding of early Christianity.
Marcus Borg takes some of the key words in the Christian dictionary and exposes the negative and unhelpful connotations they still carry today. At the same time, he goes back to the Bible and unpacks their meaning in a way that is both more faithful to the teaching of Jesus and more relevant to his followers today.
How to have faith—or even think about God—without having to stifle modern rational thought is one of the most vital challenges facing many of us today. Marcus J. Borg, author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time , traces his personal spiritual journey to the discovery of an authentic yet fully contemporary understanding of God. In a compelling, readable way, he leads us from the distant, authoritarian God of our childhood to an equally powerful, dynamic adult image of God—"the beyond in our midst," the life spirit that is within us and all around us—that reconciles faith with science, history, critical thinking, and religious pluralism.
From top Jesus expert Marcus Borg, a completely updated and revised version of his vision of Jesus—as charismatic healer, sage, and prophet, a man living in the power of the spirit and dedicated to radical social change. Fully revised and updated, this is Borg's major book on the historial Jesus. He shows how the Gospel portraits of Jesus, historically seen, make sense. Borg takes into account all the recent developments in historical Jesus scholarship, as well as new theories on who Jesus was and how the Gospels reflect that. The original version of this book was published well before popular fascination with the historical Jesus. Now this new version takes advantage of all the research that has gone on since the 80s. The revisions establish it as Borg's big but popular book on Jesus.
