Marcus J. Borg, PH.D.

Marcus Borg is Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University and author of the best-selling books Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, The Heart of Christianity, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time,The God We Never Knew, and Jesus.
Crossan is the author of several best-selling books including God & Empire, The Historical Jesus,Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography,The Birth of Christianity, Who Killed Jesus?, and The Last Week, coauthored with Marcus Borg. He
lives in Minneola, Florida.

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Bible/Jesus Experts

The First Paul

Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon

Talking Points

John Dominic Crossan is the author of several bestselling books, including God and Empire, The Historical Jesus, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Birth of Christianity and Who Killed Jesus? He lives in Minneola, Florida.

Marcus J. Borg is Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University and author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, The Heart of Christianity, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, The God We Never Knew, and Jesus.

Description

In this revolutionary follow-up to The Last Week and The First Christmas, Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan once again use the best of biblical and historical scholarship to expose the church’s conspiracy to silence Jesus’s most faithful disciple, the former Pharisee Saul, known to the world as the apostle Paul.

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Bible/Jesus Experts

The First Christmas

What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth

Talking Points

Borg is Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University and author of the best-selling books Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, The Heart of Christianity, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time,The God We Never Knew, and Jesus.
Crossan is the author of several best-selling books including God & Empire, The Historical Jesus, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography,The Birth of Christianity, Who Killed Jesus?, and The Last Week, coauthored with Marcus Borg. He lives in Minneola, Florida.

Description

An account of the two famous nativity narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, The First Christmas focuses on discovering the actual literary story that the Gospels tell. Using the Gospel of Mark as their guide, The Last Week explores the events of the last seven days of Jesus’s life leading up to his crucifixion and death.

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HarperOne Fiction

Putting Away Childish Things

A Tale of Modern Faith

Talking Points

Bestselling author, Bible scholar, and theologian Marcus Borg takes his core teachings on faith and the Bible and shows how transformative they can be through the story of a college professor , her students, and a crisis of faith.

Description

Kate is a popular religion professor at a liberal arts college in a small town in the Midwest who retreats to her nearest pub for a Guinness and a cigarette when she needs some air. Kate thinks her life is right on track—teaching, writing books, getting some notice, but she soon discovers that even in the twenty-first century, God works in mysterious ways.

Kate is up for tenure, and that is when it all starts to go wrong. A colleague warns her that her books are too Christian and too popular. She is offered a visiting professor job at a prestigious seminary that employs the professor she had an affair with years ago. Students ask her views on Jesus, the Bible, and homosexuality, which leads to a parents’ campaign for the school to get rid of her.

Along the way, readers learn about theological and social issues dividing Christians today as the characters engage them in their lives and work. What is the Bible? What is the quest for the historical Jesus about? What is the nature of faith? How does the study of religion relate to the practice of religion? Are reason and faith friends or foes?

Who said it would be easy to be a Christian in today’s world? As Kate wrestles with the Bible, the church, the university, her past, and her vocation, we all learn from and share in what it means to walk in faith today.

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