[Dialogue] Wilber

[Wilson Priscilla]

Marcus Borg is coming to our church to do presentations Friday  
evening and Saturday. Then he'll present in a class Sunday morning  
and preach at one of our services. I've heard him before (and read a  
bunch of his stuff) and enjoy his perspective very much.
Priscilla Wilson

On Apr 14, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Darrell Walker wrote:

>
> Darrel, I did a double-take on your saying JWM was a revolutionary  
> mystic. Beware, he may hunt you down.
>
>     God, what a terrifying thought!
>     Actually, I heard a tape of Marcus Borg's talk that he gave to  
> the Progressive Christians Uniting in Pasadena recently, and at the  
> end of his talk he used two terms--ecstatic mysticism and non- 
> ecstatic mysticism.  He didn't expand on them much but inferred the  
> latter to be a base that empowers us to combat injustice (or some  
> such).  I'm not sure what Borg means by the terms, but somehow non- 
> ecstatic mystic seems to describe JWM for me.
>     Something to think about in reflecting on Matthews.
>         Darrell
>
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Priscilla Wilson
TeamTech Press
Mission Hills, KS 66208
pwilson at teamtechinc.com



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