Theodora
12-13-2006, 04:06 AM
Good morning, all!
FWIW....just a different "take" on the reference to "Borg Catharsis"...(and now you'll all REALLY know how out of touch I am with modern "culture!...LOL!) ----
Though I've enjoyed Star Trek in the past, "Borg" did not ring any kind of bell for me when I saw the name in the subject header. Rather, what came to mind was the AUTHOR Marcus Borg, whose contemporary works in modern theology have been helpful for both my husband and myself.
If interested, what came to mind this a.m. was this book:
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith (Paperback)
by Marcus J. Borg
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
All Christianity is, to some extent, idolatrous. Christian worship is a response to a worshiper's image of Jesus, and all images of Jesus fall short of his reality--in the same way that all biographies and portraits fail to depict a whole person. In Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, New Testament scholar Marcus Borg attempts to understand how popular images of Jesus connect Christians to their savior and isolate them from him. Borg writes about his own evolving ideas of who Jesus was, considers the scholarly and popular religious evolution of Jesus' public image, and investigates with special care the effects of Historical Jesus research on contemporary images of Jesus. Meeting Jesus Again is written in an affable, gracious, and unflinchingly honest voice. Borg's description of his own faith particularly exemplifies these qualities, and gives the reader a simultaneously safe and unsettling new perspective on the peasant from Galilee: "[T]he central issue of the Christian life is not believing in God or believing in the Bible," he writes. "Rather, the Christian life is about entering into a relationship with that to which the Christian tradition points, which may be spoken of as God, the risen, living Christ, or the Spirit. And a Christian is one who lives out his or her relationship to God within the framework of the Christian tradition." --Michael Joseph Gross
From Library Journal
Borg (religion and culture, Oregon State Univ.) provides an account of contemporary Jesus scholarship--told in simple language for lay readers--and of his personal struggle to find authentic, mature faith. Here, the historical pre-Easter Jesus and the post-Easter Jesus (whom other writers have referred to as the Christ of faith), or the Jesus revealed by scholarship and the Jesus of Christian tradition are brought together as Borg articulates his own struggle from doubt to faith. His struggle is grounded in contemporary scholarship, personal experience, and "an understanding of the Christian life as a relationship to the Spirit of God--a relationship that involves one in a journey of transformation." Highly recommended.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Product Details
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco; Reprint edition (March 3, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN: 0060609176
Other books listed on Amazon.com which looked interesting--(I've read an additional one or two here, but it's been some time ago)--
"Customers who bought this item also bought:"
Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally by Marcus J. Borg
The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg
The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg
Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions by Marcus J. Borg
The Lost Gospel Q: The Original Sayings of Jesus by Marcus J. Borg
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As I said....all of the above "FWIW." I've not had a chance to read much here of late, "Outcast," so I don't know much about you...but your chosen name says a lot about your situation and my heart goes out to you. As you search for new places to "belong," remember that our Lord too "had no place to lay his head."
Grace and peace to you and yours this day--
Theodora
FWIW....just a different "take" on the reference to "Borg Catharsis"...(and now you'll all REALLY know how out of touch I am with modern "culture!...LOL!) ----
Though I've enjoyed Star Trek in the past, "Borg" did not ring any kind of bell for me when I saw the name in the subject header. Rather, what came to mind was the AUTHOR Marcus Borg, whose contemporary works in modern theology have been helpful for both my husband and myself.
If interested, what came to mind this a.m. was this book:
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith (Paperback)
by Marcus J. Borg
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
All Christianity is, to some extent, idolatrous. Christian worship is a response to a worshiper's image of Jesus, and all images of Jesus fall short of his reality--in the same way that all biographies and portraits fail to depict a whole person. In Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, New Testament scholar Marcus Borg attempts to understand how popular images of Jesus connect Christians to their savior and isolate them from him. Borg writes about his own evolving ideas of who Jesus was, considers the scholarly and popular religious evolution of Jesus' public image, and investigates with special care the effects of Historical Jesus research on contemporary images of Jesus. Meeting Jesus Again is written in an affable, gracious, and unflinchingly honest voice. Borg's description of his own faith particularly exemplifies these qualities, and gives the reader a simultaneously safe and unsettling new perspective on the peasant from Galilee: "[T]he central issue of the Christian life is not believing in God or believing in the Bible," he writes. "Rather, the Christian life is about entering into a relationship with that to which the Christian tradition points, which may be spoken of as God, the risen, living Christ, or the Spirit. And a Christian is one who lives out his or her relationship to God within the framework of the Christian tradition." --Michael Joseph Gross
From Library Journal
Borg (religion and culture, Oregon State Univ.) provides an account of contemporary Jesus scholarship--told in simple language for lay readers--and of his personal struggle to find authentic, mature faith. Here, the historical pre-Easter Jesus and the post-Easter Jesus (whom other writers have referred to as the Christ of faith), or the Jesus revealed by scholarship and the Jesus of Christian tradition are brought together as Borg articulates his own struggle from doubt to faith. His struggle is grounded in contemporary scholarship, personal experience, and "an understanding of the Christian life as a relationship to the Spirit of God--a relationship that involves one in a journey of transformation." Highly recommended.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
-----------------------------------------------
Product Details
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco; Reprint edition (March 3, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN: 0060609176
Other books listed on Amazon.com which looked interesting--(I've read an additional one or two here, but it's been some time ago)--
"Customers who bought this item also bought:"
Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally by Marcus J. Borg
The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg
The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg
Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions by Marcus J. Borg
The Lost Gospel Q: The Original Sayings of Jesus by Marcus J. Borg
===
As I said....all of the above "FWIW." I've not had a chance to read much here of late, "Outcast," so I don't know much about you...but your chosen name says a lot about your situation and my heart goes out to you. As you search for new places to "belong," remember that our Lord too "had no place to lay his head."
Grace and peace to you and yours this day--
Theodora