Greg Boyd
Podcast: If We Have Opportunities After Death, Why Try So Hard in Life?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Afterlife
Why even try? Why Work So Hard to Share the Gospel? Greg considers how the reality of an intermediary state (after death) affects our motivations. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0167.mp3
Podcast: If Violence is Wrong, Why Passively Allow Others to Use It?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Non-Violence, Violence
Greg discusses dealing with the violence of loved ones. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0166_.mp3
The Centrality of the Cross in Church History
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, Cruciform Theology, Evangelicalism, Luther
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
Some readers of Crucifixion of the Warrior God may be assuming that the emphasis I’m placing on the cross is unprecedented in church history. While I will not deny that the cross-centered approached to interpreting…
Podcast: What Do You Think About Medical Marijuana?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Does Greg pass on grass? Find out in this controversial episode. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0165.mp3 photo: Alejandro Forero Cuervo
Podcast: How Involved in Church Should Kids Be?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Kids
Greg discusses the idea of a Kids book based on a Cruciform Hermeneutic, then considers how much kids should be involved in reading and learning about the bible. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0164.mp3
Is the New Testament Ambiguous About Non-Violence?
Category: General
Tags: Bible Interpretation, Cruciform Theology, Non-Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
One could argue, with some legitimacy, that the portrait of God in the NT is not unambiguously non-violent, the revelation of God on Calvary notwithstanding. It can’t be denied that there are violent-appearing images of…
Podcast: Doesn’t Jesus Violate the Free Will of Demons When He Casts Them Out?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Demons, Free Will
Greg discusses the free will of demons and speculates on whether God is ever violent towards spiritual entities. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0163.mp3
Reviewing the Reviews: Tom Belt (Part 2)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Tom Belt
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
In my previous post I reviewed Tom’s critical review of volume 1 of CWG, and in this post I’d like to do the same for his critical review of volume 2. As he did in his…
Podcast: Are You Simply Picking and Choosing What You Believe in the Bible?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg discusses how we must ALL decide what we are going to take at face value in the bible and what we are not. Greg then discusses 2 ways of approaching scripture (bringing a picture…
Reviewing the Reviews: Tom Belt (Part 1)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Reviews, Tom Belt
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Tom Belt has written a four-part review of Crucifixion of the Warrior God on his blog An Open Orthodoxy. Parts 1 and 2 offer an overall fair and balanced summary of CWG, at least to the point that…
Podcast: What’s the Difference Between MERCY and GRACE?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Grace, Mercy
Is Mercy simply another word for Grace? Find out in this short taught thriller of an episode! http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0161.mp3
The Problem with Christocentrism
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Christocentrism, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
As we’ve discussed in the previous posts, there has been a growing move toward a Christocentric orientation in theology since Barth, and especially over the last fifty years. I enthusiastically applaud this trend, for I’m…
Podcast: How Do You Make Sense of the Wrath of God in John 3:36?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Wrath, Wrath
Verse: John 3
Learn and Turn. Greg discusses why the wrath of God is probably not an emotion of God but a way of describing the consequences built in to sin. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0160.mp3
Overemphasizing Christ?
Category: General
Tags: Christocentrism, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Orthodoxy
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
In response to my work, some have argued that I tend to overemphasize Christ. In light of the claim that in Jesus we have the one and only definitive Word of God and that no…
Podcast: What Does it Mean for Jesus to Mediate for God if Jesus IS God?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Trinity
Greg discusses what it means for each member of the Trinity to have different roles. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0159.mp3
Modern Theologians and the Centrality of Christ
Category: General
Tags: Bible Interpretation, Christocentrism, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Theology
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
During the twentieth century the development of a Christocentric reading of the Scriptures—which is crucial to understanding what I argue in Crucifixion of the Warrior God—surged in the wake of Karl Barth’s publication of his…
Christus Victor Atonement and Girard’s Scapegoat Theory
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Character of God, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Love, Rene Girard, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Many of the major criticisms of Crucifixion of the Warrior God that have been raised since it was published four weeks ago have come from folks who advocate Rene Girard’s understanding of the atonement. A…
Early Anabaptists and the Centrality of Christ
Category: General
Tags: Anabaptists, Cruciform Theology, Menno Simons
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
In a previous post, I wrote about the Christocentric interpretation of the Scriptures espoused by the magisterial Reformers, specifically Luther and Calvin. Their hermeneutic was focused on the work and the offices of Christ, but…
The Reformers and the Centrality of Christ
Category: General
Tags: Christocentrism, Cruciform Theology, John Calvin, Martin Luther
The Christocentric nature of the Church’s hermeneutic approached a zenith in the Protestant Reformation. While Luther and Calvin rejected allegorical interpretation, in theory if not in practice, they nevertheless relied on typology and other creative…
Reviewing the Reviews: Derek Flood
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Derek Flood, Disarming Scripture, Reviews
In this second “Review of the Reviews” of Crucifixion of the Warrior God, I will discuss the three-part review of Derek Flood. In part 1 Derek provides a nice overview of the Introduction through chapter…