{"id":380,"date":"2002-05-31T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-31T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2002\/05\/31\/meeting-marcus-borg-again-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2014-10-13T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T15:38:14","slug":"meeting-marcus-borg-again-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2002\/05\/meeting-marcus-borg-again-for-the-first-time.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Marcus Borg Again for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I&#8217;d read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060609176\/zachfreyA\">Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time<\/a> again, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjohnsplymouth.org\/\">my church<\/a> is using it as a study guide for new adult confirmands(!).<\/p>\n<p>So I guess it&#8217;s time to read it again, and prepare to defend the apparantly controversial view that Jesus Seminar material is probably not what we want to use to <i>strengthen<\/i> the faith of the newly confirmed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While they say you can&#8217;t judge a book by it&#8217;s cover, sometime all you should need to know are the reviews on the inside front page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;He &#8230; invites us to look with fresh eyes at the Jesus that the church has distorted in the service of its doctrine and its creeds&#8230; <b>I loved this book.<\/b><br \/>\n&#8212; Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong, Bishop of Newark<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What more should one need to know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I&#8217;d read Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time again, but my church is using it as a study guide for new adult confirmands(!). So I guess it&#8217;s time to read it again, and prepare to defend the apparantly controversial view that Jesus Seminar material is probably not what we want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episcopaganism","category-episcopal-church"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-68","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}