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What do you think of Thomas Aquinas’ view of God?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Classical Theism, God, Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Attributes and Character
Question: You have written (in Trinity and Process) that the relational God of the Bible is the antithesis of the immutable God of Thomas Aquinas. Could you explain this? Answer: Aquinas and much of the…
What is omni-resourcefulness?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Free Will, God, Open Theism, Predestination, Q&A
Topics: Attributes and Character
Question: What do you mean when you refer to God’s omni-resourcefulness? Can you support this with Scripture? Answer: I and others use the term omni-resourcefulness to highlight a feature of God in Scripture that the…
Is Free Will compatible with Predestination?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Free Will, Predestination, Q&A
Topics: Free Will and the Future, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
Question: Isn’t “freedom” simply our ability to do what we want? And if this is so there seems to be no incompatibility between saying that a person is “free” on the one hand, but predestined…
Did God use Satan to test Job?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Bible, Old Testament, Problem of Evil, Q&A
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict, The Problem of Evil
Question: In Job 1:21 and 2:10, Job seems to accept “adversity” from God while continuing to trust him. Job blames his troubles on God (i.e. “He shattered me” [16:12], “He breaks me down on every…
The Kansas City Star – 11/30/06
Category: Press
The KansasCity Star ran an article called “Evangelicals Take Political Uneasiness Public” (16 kb pdf) which mentions Greg and his book
How can we determine what is and is not “open” about the future?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Free Will and the Future
Question: You believe that the future is partly open. You’re writing has pretty much convinced me this is true, but I’ve still got some serious questions about it. For example, how does anyone determine what…
Why did Jesus say “buy a sword”?
Category: General
Hope you’re all enjoying the Christmas season. Here’s a question I’ve gotten a dozen times in the last several weeks: If Jesus is opposed to violence, why did he tell his disciples to buy swords…
Theooze.com Book Review – 10/26/06
Category: Press
A book review of The Myth of a Christian Nation was published on theooze.com.
Star Tribune – 10/23/06
Category: Press
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune ran “Wallis vs. Boyd: A Friendly Evangelical Smackdown,” (50 kb pdf) an article about the recent event at Bethel with Greg and author Jim Wallis .
In a democracy, don’t Christians have a responsibility to participate in politics?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Politics, Q&A, Social Issues
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Question: You’ve argued that Christians shouldn’t try to gain power in government on the grounds that Jesus didn’t try to gain power in the political system of his day. But his government didn’t allow for…
The Evangelical Covenant Church Website and Magazine- 10/11/06
Category: Press
The Evangelical Covenant Church published a short article about Greg on their web site. In addition, they published an interview with Greg in the October 2006 edition their magazine, The Covenant Companion.
Spiritual Journey
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd
Over the years I’ve given bits and pieces of my testimony about how I came to Christ in sermons and books, but I’ve never woven all these pieces together into a single narrative. Many have…
Was the Christian Security Guard a Hero?
Category: General
On December 9, Matthew Murray walked onto the campus of New Life Church in Colorado Springs and began shooting at people. He killed one person and wounded several others before a volunteer church security guard,…
Cinncinati.com Article – 10/10/06
Category: Press
Cinncinati.com ran an article on Greg called “Oh, Those Wacky, Compassionate Christians.”
The Covenant Companion Magazine – 10/06
Category: Press
The Covenant Companion Magazine wrote an article entitled “Christian People or a Christian Nation?“
Christianity Today Article – 10/06
Category: Press
The Cross or the Sword? Gregory Boyd’s radical approach to faith and politics has taken him where few American pastors have dared to go—and he’s got the empty pews to prove it. By Carla Barnhill
The Kansas City Star – 9/30/06
Category: Press
The Kansas City Star ran an article called “Evangelicals Take Political Uneasiness Public” (16 kb pdf) which mentions Greg and his book.
Wired Parish – 9/28/06
Category: Press
Jay Kelly at WiredParish.com did an audio interview (10.1 mb mp3) with Greg about Myth of a Christian Nation.
Sex and the Trinity
Category: General
Okay, this is (I hope) the last of my sex blogs for a while. But hey, this is important stuff, especially given how cavalierly our culture treats sex. So far we’ve seen that sex is…