A Robust Affirmation of God

When it comes to the weightier matters of divinity, humility is a good virtue to have. That being said, a miserly faith that has no real passion for God is of little value. Although he insists that the "emerging paradigm" of Christianity does not see the Bible being either a divine product or inerrant, Marcus Borg does assert a "robust affirmation of God."

On this he writes:

Seeing the Bible and the gospels as human products involves no denial of the reality of God or the presence of the Spirit in the process. The form of the emerging paradigm that I advocate includes a robust affirmation of the reality of God. There are reductionist forms of Enlightenment thought that view the idea of God as nothing more than a mistaken human projection and construction. They do not interest me. For me, Christianity without a robust affirmation of the sacred has no significant importance (emphasis mine). Within this framework, the Bible and the gospels (like the sacred scriptures of other religious) are human responses to the sacred. They tell us not what God says, but what our spiritual ancestors said. (Borg, Jesus, pp. 24-25).

Now, I'm more comfortable with a stronger statement -- I like Barth's use of the word Witness rather than human response -- but I appreciate his rejection of a reductionist Christianity that lacks a "robust affirmation of God."