Books | Chapter Excerpts | Articles | Sermons
The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith
© 2003, published by HarperSanFransico
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking
the Bible Seriously but Not Literally
© 2001, published by HarperSanFrancisco
Study guide available
from Faith Futures Foundation
God at 2000
with Ross Mackenzie
© 2001, published by Morehouse Publishing
Jesus at 2000
© 1998, published by Westview Press
The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions
with N. T. Wright
© 1998, published by HarperSanFrancisco
The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to
a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
© 1997, published by HarperSanFrancisco
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical
Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith
© 1994, published by HarperSanFrancisco
Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship
© 1994, published by Trinity Press International
Jesus, A New Vision: Spirit, Culture, and the Life
of Discipleship
© 1987, published by HarperSanFrancisco
Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of
Jesus
© 1984, published by HarperSanFrancisco
An excerpt from chapter 6 of The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering A Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg.
Reading the Creation Stories Again
Excerpted from Reading the Bible Again for the First Time (HarperSanFrancisco, 2001).
Me and Jesus: The Journey Home
An autobiographical sketch by Marcus J. Borg. Originally published in The Fourth R, Volume 6, 4; July/August 1993.
It's normal to personify God in worship and devotion. But we shouldn't take these personifications literally.
Is the Bible a political playbook? Should religion be used to legitimate domination systems?
More articles by Marcus Borg at Beliefnet
A sermon by Marcus J. Borg for the Lenten Noonday Preaching Series at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee on February 24, 2002.
A sermon by Marcus J. Borg for the Lenten Noonday Preaching Series at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee on March 15, 2001.
A sermon by Marcus J. Borg for the Lenten Noonday Preaching Series at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee on March 24, 2000.
A sermon by Marcus J. Borg for the Lenten Noonday Preaching Series at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee on March 23, 2000.
A sermon by Marcus J. Borg for the Lenten Noonday Preaching Series at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee on March 16, 1999.
More sermons by Marcus Borg at ExploreFaith.org
A Portrait of Jesus Introduction
Lenses through which Borg sees Jesus
Compare Pre- and Post-Easter Jesus
Summaries of the Pre-Easter Jesus
Context: Spirit Persons in Many Cultures
Context: Wisdom Teachers in Many Cultures
Context: Social and Cultural World of Jesus
Books and Articles by Marcus Borg
FaithFutures Foundation: integrating faith and scholarship
Living the Questions, a progressive 12-week DVD and web curriculum to help participants discover the relevance of Christianity in the 21st Century and what a meaningful faith can look like in today's world. Features Marcus Borg and 14 other scholars and pastors.
New Testament Gateway, created by Dr. Mark Goodacre, University of Birmingham, UK
The Jesus Seminar, created by Dr. Mahlon Smith, Jesus Seminar Fellow and faculty at Rutgers University
Virtual Religion Index, created by Dr. Mahlon Smith, Rutgers University
Westar Institute, official Jesus Seminar site; includes churches open to the scholarship of the Jesus Seminar