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

These brief excerpts are meant to provoke thought/reflection...

More from Marcus Borg:

'Statements about Jesus being "the only way" [reflect] the joy of having found one's salvation through Jesus, and the intensity of Christian devotion to Jesus. They should be understood as exclamations, not doctrines, and as "the poetry of devotion and the hyperbole of the heart."

'But the claim does mean that for us, as Christians, Jesus is the decisive revelation of God, and what a life full of God is like...

'The New Testament itself contains an exceedingly compact christological crystallization: "Jesus is the image of the invisible God". In him we see what God is like. The Greek word behind image is "icon"... An icon is a sacred image: its purpose is to mediate the sacred. Jesus as image and icon of God not only shows us what God is like but also mediates the sacred. The one who was and is the Word of God, Wisdom of God, and Son of God is also the sacrament of God.' (p. 156).

[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