Search Results: benefit of the doubt
Quotes to Chew On: Conflicting Depictions of God
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Quotes
…there must have been things going on behind the scenes that we are not privy to. And until we can ask him face to face, the faithful thing to do is to try and imagine what this “something else” might have been.” Boyd, Gregory, Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the…
Imaging God Rightly: God’s Self-Portrait, Part 3
Category: Essays
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Essay, Jesus, The Image of God
Topics: Apologetics, Christology
…in our next post. Greg P.S. In my latest book, Benefit of the Doubt, I devoted Chapter 9, entitled “The Center of Scripture”, to this topic. Here’s a sermon that you might find interesting. It’s one I gave a couple of years ago during the Christmas season. A.Davey via Compfight…
Things I liked and things that bugged me about “Noah”
Category: General
Tags: Flood, Movie Review, Nephilim, Noah, Violence
…Aronofsky the benefit of the doubt. But is it not impossible that Aronofsky is intentionally depicting “The Creator” as evil, the way ancient Gnostics did? Maybe this is the Gnostic Flood account rather than a biblical account? Third, assuming this was intended to be a biblical story, I disliked the…
How To Talk about Theology
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Cruciform Theology, Debate, Problem of Evil, Social Media, Theology
Topics: Theological Method
…“the enemy.” In Benefit of the Doubt, Greg offers a model for how we can think theologically about the various issues and weigh the importance of the various debates. In addition, this model helps to facilitate conversations with others with whom we disagree without having to use “either/or” language. Here…
Court-of-Law Theology: How It Falls Short
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Theology
Courtney “Coco” Mault via Compfight Last week, we introduced a way of talking about theology with concentric circles. This approach is distinct from the common Western model of theology that depends upon a court-of-law framework. The following is an excerpt from Greg’s book Benefit of the Doubt regarding this: ____________________________…
Some News and a Giveaway!
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Current Events, Newsletter, ReKnew
…newsletter distribution list. You can unsubscribe from either of them at any time. We hope this is something you’ll end up looking forward to each month. And now for the giveaway! We are going to be drawing five names from new subscribers and sending out five copies of Benefit of…
Winners!
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Newsletter
Let\’s Celebrate!, celebrations, fireworks, fourth of july, holidays, independence day, sky Last month we launched our first e-newsletter for ReKnew and decided to give away ten copies of Greg’s book Benefit of the Doubt to celebrate. Here are the winners: Jerry from Round Lake, Illinois Josh from Saint Paul, MN…
Do You Have Enough Faith?
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Covenant, Doubt, Faith
inspirational status of ones spiritual faith – Christian Free Photos What does it actually mean to have faith? This is a topic I address at length in Benefit of the Doubt, but this post provides a very basic answer to this question. To appropriately understand the New Testament’s teaching on…
The Cross Above All Else
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Communion, Cruciform Theology, Faith, Jesus
…for; our trust is rather in God himself. … We trust God to be who he reveals himself to be on the cross and trust that his moment-by-moment attitude toward us is what he reveals it to be on the cross. This excerpt is from Benefit of the Doubt, pages…
What We Long For
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Desires, Doubt, Longing, Love of God, Trinity, Triune Love
…Holy Spirit. And as a result, the love of the Triune God will be replicated toward us, in us, and through us as we love God and one another. I can’t imagine a loftier and more beautiful goal for humanity than this! —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 57-60…
Are You Fully Alive? Here’s the Key
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Cruciform Theology, Fully Human, Life to the Full, Love, Love of God, Trinity
…for me is also unconditional. The person who has allowed this unconditional love to form the core of their self-identity is a person who will remain unshakable in their sense of being fully alive, regardless of what life may throw their way. —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 240-242….
Greg Boyd’s Academic Vita
…Cruciform Hermeneutic; Volume 2: The Cruciform Thesis(Fortress Press, 2017) The Cosmic Dance: What Science Can Teach Us About The Nature of Time, Life and Humpty Dumpty (ReKnew Publications, 2016) Benefit of the Doubt: Dismantling the Idol of Certainty (Baker, 2013) Present Perfect: Discovering God in the Now (Zondervan; 2010) Across…
When the Bible Becomes an Idol
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Religious Idolatry
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
…our relationship with the one true source of life. If what makes us feel okay with God is our confidence in the correctness of our beliefs, then our confidence in our beliefs is, in effect, our god. —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 55-56. Image by MattLake via Flickr….
V Theology
…Theology’s Bible (Baker Academic, 2008) 3 G. Boyd, The Benefit of the Doubt (Baker, 2013) 2 G. Chartier, The Analogy of Love (Imprint Academic, 2007) 2 G. Goldsworthy, Christ-Centered Biblical Theology (IVP Academic, 2012) 2 J. B. Green, M. Turner, eds., Between Two Horizons (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2000) 3 S….
Hungry Hearts
Category: General
Tags: C.S. Lewis, Love, Spiritual Hunger
…feel absolutely secure in this love and worth, for we know that nothing—including the loss of our biological life—could cause us to lose this life. This hunger for life is the most fundamental driving force for our lives. —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 56-58 Image by Jordan McQueen….
What’s Your Worth?
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Tags: God's Love, Unsurpassable Worth
…also unconditional. When we allow this unconditional love to form the core of our self-identity, we will remain unshakable in our sense of being fully alive, regardless of what life may throw our way. —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 240-242 Photo credit: bernat… via Visualhunt / CC BY-NC-ND…
What the Cross Tells Us About God
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Cross, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Transformation
…same character in our relationship with him and all others. We do this not by striving, but by simply gazing on the beauty revealed in the cross with our minds and hearts open to the Spirit. —adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 235-237 Photo Credit: Jacob Meyer via Unsplash…
The Revelation of God in the Cross
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Tags: Cross, Cruciform Theology, God, Jesus, Love, Self-Sacrificial Love
…that contrasts with the cross; it’s the power that leads to the cross and that confirms the cross as God’s way of responding to evil, even as it confirms that the cross reflects the kind of God that the true God is. —adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 242-244…
The Hope of the Cross & Resurrection
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Tags: Already Not Yet, Cross, Easter, Eschatology, Hope, Resurrection
…someday we will be exactly like him. During this holy week, fix your eyes on Jesus and the truth of what the cross-resurrection event has already made true, even though it has not been fully realized. —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 248-249 Photo Credit: Joseph Hooper via Freely…
It’s All About the Crucified Christ
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Cruciform Theology, Easter, Love
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
…an idol that eventually ends up sucking life from us. But the cross is the place where we find true life. May God open your eyes to this cross-like love of God during this Holy Week. —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 60-62 Photo credit: Ondrej Supitar via Unsplash…