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Podcast: What’s the Deal with the Nephilim?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Nephilim
Greg looks the strange story of the Nephilim. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0168.mp3
How the Anabaptists Emphasized the Cross
Category: General
Tags: Anabaptists, Christus Victor, Cross, Cruciform Theology, Jesus
Because the Anabaptists have generally emphasized faith that is evidenced by works and thus on Jesus’ life as an example to be followed, it may prima facia appear that the saving work of the cross…
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…
Where Psychology and Theology Meet
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, God's Character, Guilt, Love, Sin
Topics: Attributes and Character
Guest post by Ty Gibson The biblical narrative reveals that God bears our guilt—not merely in the penal sense that Reformed theology asserts—but in the sense that He bears our misconceptions of His character as…
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
God is Love: Full Stop
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Attributes of God, Character of God, Love
Not many Christians would disagree that God is love, but many would quickly qualify that with some other kind of attribute such as justice. But love is not just one of the attributes of God alongside…
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
15 Reasons Open Theism is TRUE (a reply to Andrew Wilson)
Category: Guest Contributor
Tags: Open Theism
Topics: Defending the Open View, Responding to Objections
Article by Dan Kent Recently, Andrew Wilson shared an impressive critique of open theism called: “Responding To Open Theism In Fourteen Words.” Andrew’s article didn’t persuade me, but it did challenge me (seriously!). Below I…