This article is an excerpt from my 2011 book You’re not as Crazy as I Think. The book includes four chapters dedicated to understanding various groups that are commonly misunderstood by evangelicals and this excerpt is drawn from the chapter titled “Not all liberal Christians are heretics.” In the passage, I attempt to understand the individual […]
Marcus Borg
Putting Away Childish Things: A Review
Marcus J. Borg, Putting Away Childish Things: A Novel of Modern Faith (New York: HarperOne, 2010). I have long been a fan of what one might best call “theological fiction”, that is narratives that raise profound theological questions and pose intriguing theological analyses. The best works in this area are by theologically informed novelists: witness Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Graham Greene’s The End […]
