‘erənt’ erring or straying from the proper course or standards, or:
traveling in search of adventure (as in knight errant). Take your pick.
Reading Marcus Borg, again, for the first time
Marcus Borg introduces us to Jesus and the scriptures for the first time, again. For the first time again because we are taking a new look at the scriptures, as it were for the first time. But this time as moderns, as people guided by reason. His view is very much in line with Joseph Campbell, with a real focus on metaphor and meaning. Borg is focused on the scriptures of Christianity, while Campbell takes in the whole of human experience.
For me, Borg’s work is about reconciliation. After going through a period of doubt and disaffection, with respect to the church and its canon, I can come again to the scriptures and see the truth that matters. In a sense, it is coming to a place where I am not overly worried about the absolute factual truth of every scripture story, but to a place where I can find redeeming meaning in the timeless stories and parables of our scriptures.
Coming again to Jesus and the scriptures defines Borg’s work—even his titles: Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, and Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, perhaps his two most well-known books. Borg is a biblical scholar, and clearly an “unbelieving” modern, but at the same time he also appears to be totally grounded in the bible, and very much a biblical enthusiast. He calls his state “postcritical naiveté”: “the ability to hear the biblical stories once again as true stories, even though one knows that they may not be factually true and that their truth does not depend upon their factuality.” Continue reading Literature for the Member Errant. Part 2. Marcus Borg →
Like this:
Like Loading...