Search Results: warfare worldview
Books I’m Currently Working On
…in science over the last hundred years. We are moving away from the classic Newtonian, deterministic worldview to a much more open, dynamic worldview. In this book I attempt to show how neuroscience, quantum theory, chaos theory, complexity theory, non-equilibrium dynamics and even relativity theory each contribute to a picture…
If God Can’t Control, How Can I Trust Him?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Prayer, Problem of Evil
Topics: Open Theism, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
…come to pass. However, if you are honest with yourself, you already know that, being that every child of godly parents who has ever died obviously had prayer that the death wouldn’t happen. At least in the warfare worldview, you know that God is on your side working for good….
In the Face of Blueprint Words
Category: General
Tags: Blueprint Worldview, healing, Henry Kelley, Hope, Jessica Kelley, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
…it’s published. While Greg has written many books that deal with the Warfare Worldview, Jessica will come at this subject matter in the form of a narrative. Story is powerful and can reach people in unique ways. We know this will have a Kingdom impact that is deeply personal. Here’s…
Resisting Evil
Category: General
Tags: God's Character, God's Will, Open Theism, Satan, Warfare Worldview
…to good people?” It’s an odd question really, given that Jesus promised us that bad things would happen, especially to “good people” (Jn 16:33). If we consider the fact that the Bible teaches a warfare worldview, it would stop surprising us when evil happens. In a war zone, you expect…
What Does Spiritual Warfare Have To Do with the Cross?
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Last week, we covered a few posts on the nature of the Atonement and the Christus Victor view. The following continues this theme, specifically looking the motif of spiritual warfare and how it relates to Christ’s work on the cross. This is an adaptation from Greg’s article in The Nature…
The Cross and Cosmic Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Salvation, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…appeal to human willing is capable of explaining. And in the same vein, the significance of Christ’s work on the cross far outruns what it accomplishes for human beings. Within a warfare worldview, neither evil nor its cure is first and foremost about human beings at all. Rather, it is,…
God at War Endorsements and Reviews
Endorsements: “God at War raises the current discussion of spiritual warfare to a new and unanticipated level of scholarly investigation. I am ecstatic with the integrity with which Gregory Boyd develops his convincing argument for a biblical warfare worldview. This is an extremely important work for all who wish to…
When the Bible has Errors
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Biblical Authority, Inerrancy, Infallibility
Topics: Biblical Reliability
…dome” (Gen 1:7). It is completely understandable that God would leave the primitive worldview of ancient authors intact. How else could he effectively communicate to the people of the time? Had God attempted to communicate a “scientifically accurate” view of the world, the theological truth he wanted to convey would…
The Bible Contains Errors
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Inerrancy, Infallibility
Topics: Biblical Reliability
…However, it is completely understandable that God would leave the primitive worldview of ancient authors intact as he used ancient authors to communicate his Word. How else could he effectively communicate to the people of the time? Had God attempted to communicate a scientifically accurate view of the world, the…
Is God to Blame? Moving Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict, The Problem of Evil
…with a theology that doesn’t allow them to provide a compelling response to this objection. Most believe that everything that happens is either specifically willed or allowed by God. (I call this “the blueprint worldview” since it assumes that everything in history unfolds according to a divine “blueprint”). This view…
The Reality of Satan and the Spiritual Realm
Category: General
Tags: Blueprint Worldview, Evil, Satan, Satan and the Problem of Evil, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict, The Problem of Evil
…who rightfully belong to God. Jesus tied up the strong man so that he (and later, his church) could pillage the strong man’s kingdom. In fact, this is what Jesus’ teaching about the kingdom of God is all about. In the context of Jesus’ ministry, it is a warfare concept….
How do I avoid feeling like God is absent?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Hearing God, Prayer
Question: I used to see God involved in everything and used to believe every event expressed God’s will. After my wife and I lost our child in a tragic accident, and as a result of reading your books (especially Is God to Blame?), I came to embrace the warfare worldview…
It’s 2009 and We’re NOT DEAD YET!
Category: General
…Meantime, I hope you get this new year off to a good start. Stay centered moment-by-moment in God’s ever-present love. And, of course, ponder how Plutarch’s non-sequential view of eternity logically works against a relational, personalistic view of God as well as a warfare worldview . We’ll talk about this…
A Response to Tony Campolo on Fighting the Powers
Category: General
Tags: Politics, Spiritual Warfare, Tony Campolo
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
…the first century apocalyptic worldview, the terms “principalities and powers,” as well as similar terms such as “rulers,” “authorities,” “powers” and “spiritual forces” (e.g. 1 Cor. 2:7-8; Eph. 6:12), referred to different categories of cosmic agents or archangels who were understood to rule over systemic aspects of society and over…
Reflecting on Open2013
Category: General
Tags: Boston Bombings, Open Theism, T.C. Moore
…making it extraordinarily interactive. But one undeniable highlight of the conference was Jessica Kelley‘s sharing of Henry’s Story. Her testimony of how the Open View and the Warfare Worldview has helped her process her pain and preserved her faith in God was definitely the emotional pinnacle of the conference. Several…
Theo Graff Podcast: Featuring Jessica Kelley
Category: General
Tags: Jessica Kelley, Problem of Evil, Suffering, T.C. Moore, THEO GRAFF PODCAST, Theodicy, Warfare Worldview
…you get a chance, but we wanted to highlight the most recent one featuring Jessica Kelley. In this podcast, Jessica and T. C. talk about the problem of evil (theodicy) and the warfare worldview through the lens of her experience of losing her four-year-old son Henry to cancer. You can…
The Universal Experience of the “Spiritual”
Category: General
Tags: Angels, Demons, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…short, most cultures throughout history have in one form or another embraced some version of the warfare worldview. It is difficult to adequately account for the universality of this belief and the remarkable commonalties which are found amidst otherwise disparate cultures regarding the contents of this belief unless we suppose…
Paradigm Shift Questions
Category: General
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A, Spiritual Warfare, Theodicy, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Open Theism
A couple that was recently introduced to ReKnew and several of my books recently wrote to tell me that they are in the process of embracing the warfare worldview along with the open view of the future. They said that they “realize that these things aren’t minor adjustments but are…
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
…is that it understands the cross from an anthropocentric perspective instead of framing it within the warfare worldview of the NT. Second, I hope it is finally clear how completely different my view is from the customary understanding of the Penal Substitution view. Yes, I grant that Jesus suffered the…