tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post5485554402494100893..comments2023-08-11T10:04:41.498-05:00Comments on Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: A Positive Articulation of Marcus Borg's Theology (Part II)Sandalstrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-67821651108742332812007-04-20T07:33:00.000-05:002007-04-20T07:33:00.000-05:00But Borg doesn't reduce Jesus to a spirit person. ...But Borg doesn't reduce Jesus to a spirit person. He uses the category of spirit person as one of many lenses through which to see Jesus. One could argue, as you do, that this is an inappropriate lens, as it would not have been part of Jesus' self-understanding. But, in light of the other lenses through which Boorg sees Jesus (including the more distinctly Jewish categories of "social prophet" Sandalstrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-62629460902088634232007-04-19T15:28:00.000-05:002007-04-19T15:28:00.000-05:00Here's one of my problems with Borg's approach. He...Here's one of my problems with Borg's approach. He takes a cross-cultural category like spirit-person BEFORE he examines Jesus in his particular context. Thus, this outside category is imposed. Now there is no doubt that Jesus' relation with God's Spirit was/is vital (see James D.G. Dunn's Jesus and the Spirit), but Borg's approach seems to make Jesus into some kind of shaman.<BR/> If we startMichael Westmoreland-White, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06343135380354344847noreply@blogger.com