Quotes by Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith

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The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good no — Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be — Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our — Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Script — Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
God wills our liberation, our exodus from Egypt. God wills our reconciliation, our return from exile. God wills our enli — Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model, our central probl — Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a com — Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
In a number of workshops, I have asked people whether they have had one or more experiences that they would identify as — Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in — Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith