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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;Answering the many &quot;spiritual&quot; questions left unaddressed by such popular historical bestsellers as &lt;i&gt;A History of God&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;God: A Biography&lt;/i&gt;, renowned author Marcus Borg reveals how to embrace an authentic contemporary faith that reconciles God with science, critical thinking and religious pluralism. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; How to have faith&amp;ndash;&amp;ndash;how to even think about God&amp;ndash;&amp;ndash;without having to stifle modern rationality is one of the most vital challenges facing contemporary religion. In providing a much&amp;ndash;needed solution to the problem of how to have a fully authentic yet fully contemporary understanding of God, Borg&amp;ndash;&amp;ndash;author of the bestselling &lt;i&gt;Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time&lt;/i&gt;&amp;ndash;&amp;ndash;traces his personal journey. He leads readers from the all&amp;ndash;powerful and authoritarian God of his (and their) childhood and traditional faith to an equally powerful but dynamic image of God that is relevant to contemporary seekers and more biblical and spiritually authentic. Borg shows how the modern crisis of faith is itself rooted in delusion&amp;ndash;&amp;ndash;misinterpretation of biblical texts and of God's true nature&amp;ndash;&amp;ndash;and challenges readers to a new way of thinking about God. He opens a practical discussion about how to base a relationship with the divine both immanent and transcendant, here and now, always and everywhere. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt; Arguing that the authentic Judeo&amp;ndash;Christian tradition is that God's being includes the whole world, Borg persuasively shows how this understanding accounts for the whole variety of human religious experience. Ultimately, he introduces readers to a way of thinking about God who is &quot;right here&quot; all around them, rather than distant and remote. This understanding is more intellectually and spiritually satisfying and allows readers to reclaim a stronger sense of God's presence.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thoughtful, informative, and accessible, this book was exactly what I was seeking as I'm exploring my Christian beliefs and questioning what I had been taught about Christianity starting in my childhood.  The author, Marcus Borg, deconstructs Christianity as both he and I had first learned it (e.g.,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18135047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book introduces a new way of envisioning God that I had not thought about before. I don't know (theologically) if everything he has concluded is accurate or something I'm willing to believe, but it certainly gives me lots of thinking to do over the next few years. I like where he's taking my th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29673192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this book Marcus Borg confirmed my own inner thoughts as a Christian and it has enabled me to break through a lot of doctrine that kept me from experiencing an intimate relationship with God.  I'm very grateful to Borg dedication to his research and hard work in making it available for those who ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45594081">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Marcus Borg wrote then I'm going to read it.  I just wish he was still a professor in Portland.  I would have loved to sign up for one of his Religion and Culture classes.  Just the most amazing author and my new favorite.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Growing up, I never understood why some people don't like talking about their faith.  I know people who grew up with church and don't go.  I didn't put a lot of thought into why.  Reading this book introduced me to some views of God that I didn't know about.  It is now easier for me to understand wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13459130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Borg revisits some of the same ground covered in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time. I guess he wrote this before the other book of his I've read, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time. He expounds a bit more on the idea of a politics of compassion. He also outlines what a life of faith mig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9394607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[saya sedang seneng ajah baca buku-buku 'historical jesus', entah dari dominic crossan atau marcus j.borg ini.<br/>mereka berdua menyadarkan mengenai betapa perlunya menempatkan ide tentang 'yang ilahi' itu pada tempat yang tepat. hal yang membutuhkan perjalanan panjang dan jatuh bangun karena melib...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16863791">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Borg has interesting ideas and a compelling thesis, but ultimately moves from Point A to Point D without ever taking the reader through B and C.  I'm sympathetic to his position, but the book often presents as fact what it should present as argument.  I would like to have known how he came to his cu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11737087">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marcus Borg takes the dogmas of the Christian faith and refreshes them with a more contempary interpretation.  Borg's focus is on the relationality of God revealed in Jesus Christ.  In this book, Borg gives a new interpretation to the salvation found in Jesus Christ.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this for class- haven't made it completely through any of them so far, except the Bhagavad Gita, but they're interesting enough that I will keep them and go back after my godforsaken thesis is over (or during it when I am procrastinating). ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Borg holds that traditional Christianity emphasizes God's transcendence too much; he makes a case for pantheism, that is, God as spirit present in the world.&quot;<br/><br/>From Mom's bookshelf.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got bullied out of finishing this one. But I'm keeping it just in case I feel rebelious and want to have another go at it some day.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent, as Borg most often is. Turns conventional Christianity upside down - but in a good way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent for those who have outgrown the idea of the Old Feller in the Sky, but who still want &quot;God&quot;.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A revolutionary way of understanding the God.]]></body>
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