Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century

by Marcus J. Borg

But almost without realizing it, recent scholarship has undermined the eschatological understanding of Jesus. That view was founded on the “coming Son of Man” sayings (e.g., Mark 13:24–27) as authentic to Jesus; yet New Testament scholars now routinely (and, I think, correctly) deny that the “coming Son of Man” sayings go back to Jesus.