Marcus Borgs självbiografi

And unwittingly, I had taken the first step in removing God from the world. My solution involved thinking of God as a supernatural being "out there." God became distant and remote, far away from the world, except for special interventions, like those described in the Bible. In my young mind, I was reliving the early history of the Enlightenment, the period of western intellectual history that removed God from the world, and that, among other things, involved the "disenchantment of nature."

Marcus Borg Autobiography

My book has almost an evangelistic purpose--to show that Christianity makes persuasive and compelling sense, that the intellectual stumbling blocks that many people experience with Christianity are unnecessary and artificial and largely the creation of the last few hundred years. I’m persuaded that Christianity, rightly understood, makes sense--and so do Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. And they make very much the same kind of sense.

Jesus scholar Marcus Borg on the afterlife, the meaning of salvation, and being born again. -- Beliefnet.com