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More Good News: Only WHITE American Christianity Is Dying!
Category: General
…T.C!). In a new book entitled The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity (IVP, 2009), Soong-Chan Rah presents research that suggests the rapid demise of mainline and evangelical Christianity in America is a mostly white phenomenon. Among immigrants and ethnic minorities, Rah argues, Christianity is not only…
A Play, A Teacher, and a Changed Life
Category: General
…in my life, I had zero interest in school or in anything academic. I honestly don’t remember reading a single book cover-to-cover. From 7th to 11th grade I gave five different book reports on the same book – Hiroshima – and I honesty don’t think I even read that (short)…
The Subversion of Christianity
Category: General
…The heart of the problem, Ellul argues, is that we fear the freedom the Kingdom offers us. It’s the radical freedom of possessing nothing — including power. We rather crave the security of things, of power, of rules, and of pretending we are free (e.g. by having a vote) when…
If the violent depictions of God in the Bible are not completely accurate, isn’t all of Scripture up for debate?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Theology
Question: I’m very intrigued by your cruciform hermeneutics and can’t wait for your book (Crucifixion of the Warrior God) to come out. But I have to say that it strikes me as dangerous. You’re basically saying that the violent portraits of God in the OT are not completely accurate. But…
The Case for Women in Ministry
Category: Essays
Tags: Church, Essay, Women In Ministry
Topics: The Church
…in Ministry Commended by Paul The book of Romans mentions several examples of women in leadership positions, including a deacon, a teacher, and an apostle. In 16:1–2, Paul refers to a woman named Phoebe as a deacon and describes her as a fellow laborer for the gospel. Paul uses that…
Is it true you’re an “Open Theist” and that you don’t think God knows the future perfectly?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism What it is and is not
…perfectly knows. The difference comes down to this: we believe that the reality God perfectly knows includes possibilities. Since God gave us free will, we believe some of the future is left up for us to decide. We may freely choose one course of action or we may choose another….
What is the difference between “libertarian” and “compatibilistic” freedom?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Free Will, Predestination, Q&A, Responding to Calvinism
Topics: Free Will and the Future, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
…their choices if there is no obstacle to their choosing what they want, even though what they want is completely determined by causes outside of themselves and even though their choices are completely determined by what they want. In other words, compatibilists believe that free will is compatible with determinism….
The Open View of Messianic Prophesies
Category: General
Tags: Determinism, Divine Foreknowledge, Free Will, Open Theism, Prophesy
Topics: Open Theism
Image by Lawrence OP via Flickr A number of passages speak of particular events being foreknown by God, even events resulting from individuals’ free will. For example, dozens of prophesies in the OT accurately predict details about the coming Messiah (e.g., he would be born in Bethlehem; arise out of…
A Brief Theology of Salvation
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Cross, Evil, Redemption, Salvation
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
…If we apply this to believers, then our salvation consists in being freed from a form of slavery. We are set free from slavery to sin and guilt (Rom 6:7) as well as from the law as a way of trying to acquire righteousness before God (Gal 2:16). But the…
Kingdom Now
Category: General
Tags: Already Not Yet, Kingdom
Topics: Following Jesus
…to manifest now. Whatever will be done away with on V-Day, we’re to be free of now. We, of course, aren’t to strive to do this on our own power. Nor are we to do this in order to gain God’s approval. Rather, we are called to put the coming…
What Hinders Answers to Prayer
Category: General
Tags: Angels, Free Will, Prayer, Warfare Worldview
…the kind of world God has created, he cannot simply unilaterally override people’s free will. For example, praying for someone to come into a relationship with Christ is powerful and effective in increasing the Spirit’s influence on their life, making it more difficult for them to resist the Gospel. But…
VII Christian Living
…Letter To My Congregation (Spirit Books, 2014) 1 W. Wink, ed., Homosexuality and Christian Faith (Fortress, 1999) 2 Contents Discipleship Centrality of Self-Sacrificial Love Spiritual Formation/Prayer Central Role of Imagination in Spiritual Formation Simplicity Community Freedom From Religion Pacifism/ Peacemaking Spiritual Warfare Social Justice Reconciliation Creation Care Christians and Homosexuality…
Argument From Cosmic Redemption
Category: General
Topics: Creation Care
…for as I’ve argued in Satan and the Problem of Evil, freedom is intrinsically irrevocable. If God gives an agent x a certain amount of “say-so” to use this way or that way (that is, if God makes an agent genuinely free), God can’t simply revoke it because he disapproves…
Why Compatibilistic Freedom Does Not Make Sense
Category: General
Tags: Determinism, Evil, Free Will, Problem of Evil, Satan and the Problem of Evil
Compatibilism is the view that free will is compatible with determinism. In this view, freedom is defined as the ability to do what you want, though what you want is determined by factors outside of you. Theologians who espouse this perspective, hold that God ultimately determines what individuals want. This…
The H.R. Hutzel Interview (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
…lives in Cincinnati with her husband and their beloved golden retrievers, Westen and Finnley. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her digging in the garden or hanging out in the hammock with a good book. To find out more about Heather and her books, please visit hrhutzel.com. Episode 534 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0534.mp3…
Free Will: What is a free agent?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Calvinism, Determinism, Free Will, Open Theism, Philosophy
Topics: Free Will and the Future
What does it really mean to be a free agent? In this reflection, Greg offers some thoughts on free agents and how it can be that they are not exhaustively determined….
Free Will: Are studies that demonstrate genetic determinism a threat to free will?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Calvinism, Determinism, Free Will, Open Theism
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will, Responding to Objections
http://youtu.be/EFlIONzFnjY Greg shares his continuing thoughts on free will with a thought experiment (and a hand-drawn graph!) granting that we are largely determined by forces outside of our control. If we grant this presupposition, does that mean that free will is an illusion or insignificant? Find out!…
A Book That Won’t Leave You Unchanged
Category: General
Tags: Books, Frank Viola, Imagination, Jesus, Mary DeMuth, The Day I Met Jesus
…who encountered Jesus in the Gospels. And by doing this so effectively, the book helps readers experience for themselves the same transforming love and grace that these women experienced. It is a moving experience, and you won’t put this book down unchanged. To find out more, click here. Greg Boyd…
Revelation 17:8 refers to people whose names haven’t been written in “the book of life from the creation of the world.” Doesn’t this conflict with open theism?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Bible, End Times, New Testament, Open Theism, Q&A, Responding to Calvinism, Revelation
Topics: End Times, Providence, Predestination and Free Will, Responding to Objections
Verse: Revelation 17
…in response to the choices people made, God either wrote or omitted their names from the “book of life.” The fact that names may be blotted out even after they’ve been included (Exod. 32:33; Rev. 3:5, cf. Rev. 22:18) further suggests this “book of life” is not eternally written in…
A Little Whining and a Book Review (Overcoming Evil God’s Way)
Category: General
…book (it’s about 300 pages long), but so far it’s very good. Already I’d recommend it. Russell’s material on the Old Testament is a nice, clear and comprehensive introduction to the issue of peace and violence in the Old Testament, though it doesn’t add much to what we’ve already covered…