Continuing our summary/review of Tom Wright and Marcus Borg’s discussion… For other articles in this series visit http://jmm.org.au/catalog/section/jc1.htm.

These brief excerpts are meant to provoke thought/reflection…

More from Marcus Borg:

‘I do not myself think there will be a future visible return of Christ… I see the belief in an imminent and manifestly public return of Christ to be a mistaken belief of the early community… (and) I cannot imagine a future return of Jesus (or of Christ – I am using the words interchangeably here)… I can imagine the end of the world. I can imagine the final judgment. But I cannot imagine a return of Christ. If we try to imagine that, we have to imagine him returning to *some place*…. The Book of Revelation, despite its being mistaken about the end being near, makes the strong affirmation that Christ is Lord and Rome is not.’ (p. 195).

[Note from Rowland: To be fair to Tom and Marcus I’m presenting their summary-views before I offer some of my own… You’ll have to *think* first, and then wait for my appraisal].

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Shalom! Rowland Croucher