The Changing Christology

Well, that was all well and good, but what about this issue of Christ not rising from the dead? I was assigned to read Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg. Borg is one of the founders of the Jesus Seminar, that group of theologians and scholars who set out to determine which of the saying attributed to Jesus were actually said by him, and which were wished on him by canonical authors. I came away with an new way of understanding what it means to be a Christian. For Borg, that the Apostles had an experience of Christ after his death was not so much important as to whether or not it was literally true, but that it inspired them to carry Jesus's message all over the Classical world. Indeed, Borg plainly states that the resurrection as we have known it could not have happened. Instead, it is the experience of the "post-Easter Christ" that makes Christ's message extend to all of us. With that understanding, I now had room for this belief about the Resurrection. Notice that this belief doesn't intend to change Christ's message (although Borg had his reservations about the traditional understanding of that, too), it only makes the messenger more human. Whether Christ was divine and conquered death or not, his message was God-sent and is just as powerful in either case.

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