A review by john_hewitt
Convictions by Marcus J. Borg

4.0

“Loving what God loves, participating in God’s passion for a different kind of world, includes becoming passionate about God’s dream: a world of fairness in which everybody has enough of the material basis of existence and in which there is no violence and war. Utopian? Yes. Impossible to achieve? In its fullness, probably. But can there be greater approximations of it? Yes. Only the privileged who wish to defend their privilege, or the victimized who have given up on anything really changing and resigned themselves to their fate might say ‘no.’ But for Christians who take the Bible and Jesus seriously, it is the only world worth dreaming about —and striving toward. Loving God means participating in God’s passion for that kind of world.”