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  <title><![CDATA[The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith]]></title>
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  <default_description>Marcus Borg&amp;#8217;s fastest selling book ever, now in paperback. An engaging and inspiring guide to Christian living, this shows that the essential ingredients of a Christian life&amp;#8212;faith, being born again, the kingdom of God, the gospel of love&amp;#8212;make vital sense today.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marcus J. Borg]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 26 22:55:34 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting.  I guess liberal Jesus-seminar-types do have faith after all....<br/><br/>I don't necessarily agree with everything, but I can see that Borg is really trying to forge a way of Christian living based on the historic faith.  He is especially helpful in understanding that the biblical me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21836661">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This really is an amazing book.  Borg offers a vision of Christianity that doesn't require us to check our intellect at the door and that rejects the Christian exclusivism that so many of us find distasteful and irrelevant today.  Borg offers a way of seeing the Bible, Jesus, and Christian practices...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21736860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19365098">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 03 08:33:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ive seen this guy talk a few times, and read a number of his books.  A Jesus scholar, really, and this is probably the one most important book in convincing me that following a &quot;christian&quot; faith, apart from connection to any particular religion, is still valuable to me.  I dont know how to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19365098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5267416">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 28 21:15:04 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 28 21:17:19 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want one book to help you find a strong foundation for being a liberal Christian in today's society, this one is it. Borg, a Lutheran who at one point left the church entirely and is now back and reinvested in his faith, provides a strong basis for how someone can embrace the lessons of scien...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5267416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19677133">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 07 16:54:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 07 16:57:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, an amazing book... a new way of living my faith that I will cherish for lifetimes to come. Currently attending a Unitarian Universalist Congregation, but am not fulfilled in my connection to the spirit through this practice... Marcus Borgs writings take me one step further and help my soul to g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19677133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47004252">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book!  The author is a contemporary Christian scholar who lives in Oregon.  He contrasts a more traditional way of viewing Christianity (the &quot;earlier paradigm&quot;) with a newer &quot;emerging paradigm&quot;, which sees the Bible more historically and metaphorically and focuses on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47004252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68025763">
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    <location><![CDATA[San Luis Obispo, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is a must read for any person of faith who wants to understand the emerging Church movement.  Marcus Borg wonderfully writes his thesis and nails it to the door of the fundamentalist evangelical Church that has emerged in the U.S. in last century and a half.  <br/><br/>His main points...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68025763">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56187619">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone disenchanted with &quot;traditional&quot; Christianity]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 17 21:42:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really appreciated Borg's clear description and exploration of what he calls the &quot;emerging paradigm&quot; in Christianity.  In many ways, he articulates the ideas I have discovered in several Presbyterian churches since undergrad and come to embrace.  These ideas contrast quite strongly with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56187619">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20837076">
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    <body><![CDATA[This Will Sway You: They'll be a lot of talk about how Borg doesn't believe in the resurrection and such. By reading him you will find that he doesnt ascribe to the events the way they are portrayed. He does however, reconcile the way we interpret Scripture and I believe his emerging paradigm could ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20837076">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Mar 25 05:42:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[About how metaphorical interpretation of the Bible and Christianity provides a rich source of a Christianity that is inclusive of all and is about Gods love and reaching for the reign of God that is available to all. It includes interpretation and practical way to live into a Christianity centered i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50388253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54677643">
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely will not delve into a thick review here because Marcus Borg gets SUPER deep in this one. I will argue that if you are a Christian and you are alive today you ought to read this and consider the diversity and openness amongst believers. It should be required reading and if it were maybe ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54677643">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Kikue]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting, clear, and it confirmed a lot of what I've already decided for myself after I served and then left the fundamental, traditional Christian church.  Borg gave good light to what many Christians are questioning the church about today as we're faced with living in the age of pluralism....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40565647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marcus Borg is amazing, and my experience reading this book was similar to how I have felt reading his others: appreciative that he embraces complexity and metaphor; tremendously grateful that he presents a perspective on Christianity that both resonates deeply and challenges me to grow in my faith....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33297093">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marcus Borg presents an alternative vision of Christianity that has, frankly, reinvented my faith.  He presents a vision of Christianity that involves my head and my heart.  He affirms that faith is about an ever-deepening relationship with God, and that God is all around us, not &quot;out there.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60114503">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35618569">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Open minded Christians]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Top 10 Chrisitan Book of the year<br/><br/>Everything Borg writes is worth reading. He is clean, non-dogmatice, challanging and opens your eyes to a new, elivened view of your Christian faith. If your faith is getting stale, routine, boring enough to consider leaving the church, read this book. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35618569">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone interested in a radical new view of christianity]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Got bored with it and put it on the back burner, but below is what I had originally written...<br/><br/>Like many other books I am currently reading, I have been reading it off and on for a little while now. What it has to say I think is really important. But I feel like I've already been exposed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4851708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes felt like a cop-out, but there were definitely points that remained with me after the reading. Valuable. Should be read by anyone with any attachments to Christianity....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've read Borg's other books, he doesn't cover much new ground here.  But he does what he's good at: making Christianity meaningful for sceptics.]]></body>
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