Borg taught at
Concordia College in
Moorhead, Minnesota, from 1966 to 1969 and 1972 to 1974;
South Dakota State University in
Brookings from 1975 to 1976; and
Carleton College in
Northfield, Minnesota, from 1976 to 1979. He was a faculty member at
Oregon State University from 1979 until his retirement in 2007 as Distinguished Professor in Religion and Culture and the Hundere Endowed Chair in Religious Studies. Borg was appointed Chair of the Religious Studies Department in January 1988. The Religious Studies Department was closed at the end of the 1991–1992 academic year and Borg became a faculty member in the Philosophy Department. During his time at Oregon State he organized and led two nationally televised symposia, one in 1996 (Jesus at 2000), and another in 2000 (God at 2000). Borg also served as Visiting Professor of New Testament at the
Pacific School of Religion,
Berkeley (1989–1991) and the Chism Distinguished Visiting Professor at the
University of Puget Sound,
Tacoma, Washington (1986–1987). Borg served as national chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the
Society of Biblical Literature, co-chair of its International New Testament Program Committee and president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars. On May 31, 2009, he was installed as the first canon theologian at
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon. Borg frequently collaborated with his friend
John Dominic Crossan. He was a friend of
N. T. Wright since their days together at Oxford, despite having theological differences. The two discussed those differences in their book
The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (1999, rev. 2007). Borg was often featured in programs on networks such as
PBS,
NPR and
National Geographic, and appeared on
ABC World News and
The Today Show. In 2001, he debated
William Lane Craig over the resurrection of Jesus. Borg also debated New Testament scholar
Craig Blomberg and evangelical apologist
James White on topics such as the historical reliability of the
gospels and the
historical Jesus. Borg died on January 21, 2015, in
Powell Butte,
Oregon. ==Works==