56 Quotes by Marcus J. Borg

Being Christian doesn’t mean being anti-American, but it does mean that Christian identity and loyalty matter more than national identity and loyalty. When there is a conflict, Jesus is Lord.

For Jesus, compassion was more than a quality of God and an individual virtue: it was a social paradigm, the core value for life in community. To put it boldly: compassion for Jesus was political.

When I was a young college teacher in my mid-twenties, an older colleague delighted in characterizing post-Enlightenment theology as “flat-tire theology” – “All the pneuma has gone out of it.

Resurrection” does not mean resumption of previous existence but entry into a different kind of existence.

But “having dominion over” meant something very different from what it has often been understood to mean. It refers to the relationship between shepherd and sheep.

The terrible truth is that our world has never established peace through victory. Victory establishes not peace, but lull. Thereafter, violence returns once again, and always worse than before. And it is that escalator violence that then endangers our world.

The notions of biblical infallibility and inerrancy first appeared in the 1600s, and became insistently affirmed by some Protestants only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

To state the obvious, how we see is to a large extent the product of what we have seen.

To see Paul positively does not mean endorsing everything he ever wrote.