..."It shifts the focus of the Christian life from believing in Jesus [italics my emphasis] or believing in God to being in relationship to the same Spirit that Jesus knew ... that Christian life moves beyond believing in God to being in relationship with God."
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And if you're unfamiliar with the author, here's a blurb about Marcus Borg:
Marcus Borg is an O[regon] S[tate] U[niversity] Distinguished Professor in Religion and Culture and the Hundere Endowed Chair in Religious Studies.
Known as one of the leading historical Jesus scholars of this generation, he recently organized and spoke at OSU’s nationally televised symposium, God at 2000, that included, among several internationally regarded scholars of religion, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu. Two of Borg’s nine books have become best-sellers — Jesus: A New Vision and Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time. He has lectured at the Smithsonian and Chautauqua Institutions and in England, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Israel, and South Africa.
An outstanding teacher, Borg has received all of OSU’s major awards for teaching and has been recognized by the Oregon State Legislature. The first person in the OSU College of Liberal Arts to be designated as an OSU Distinguished Professor, Borg has twice been president of the CLA Faculty Council. His upper and lower-division courses include Great Ideas, World-Views and Values in the Bible, Philosophy and Religion, World-Views and Environmental Values, and Great Figures: The Historical Jesus.
Borg sees philosophy as primarily concerned with the role of ideas in our lives. “Ideas matter much more than we commonly think they do, especially our world-views and values, namely our ideas about what is real and how we are to live,” Borg says. “We receive such ideas from our culture as we grow up, and unless we examine them, we will not be free persons, but will to a large extent live out the agenda of our socialization.”
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