David F. Watson
has written a fitting tribute on the occasion of Borg's death. Like David, I disagreed with Borg far more than I agreed. But his scholarship was challenging and made me think. Of Borg, David writes,
With Borg's passing, we lose another of a great generation of liberals. I don't mean liberal in the sense of his theology or ethics, though he fit quite well within the world of existentialist and process theology. (Just read his book, The God We Never Knew.) I mean that you could dialogue with him. He was liberal in an older sense of that term as applied to academics. You could have respectful disagreement with him. To my knowledge, he did not belittle his opponents or caricature their positions. His work with N. T. Wright, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, is a model of respectful disagreement and discourse. Borg was truly a gentleman and a scholar.
Civility requires humility. We need more of both.
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