Book Reviews
The Future of Open Theism: From Antecedents to Opportunities (book review)
Category: Essays, General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Topics: Open Theism
a book review by Greg Boyd While there were many precursors to the movement, Open Theism first exploded on the scene as a controversial issue among Evangelicals in the wake of the 1994 publication of…
What Have You Been Reading Lately? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Does God suffer? Should we learn to swim? Drumming, books, magazines and more! Episode 586 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0586.mp3
The H.R. Hutzel Interview (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Greg interviews Heather Hutzel about her book Anointed and talks about writing, fiction, the narrative nature of scripture, and much, much more. You can get a copy of her book HERE. H.R. Hutzel (Heather Rae)…
Love Over Fear: The Dan White Jr Interview (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Our own Dan Kent interviews Dan White Jr about his new book: “Love over Fear: Facing Monsters, Befriending Enemies, and Healing Our Polarized World“ Episode 511 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0511.mp3
Why Can’t God Stop Evil? The Thomas J. Oord Interview (podcast)
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Evil, Natural Evil, Open Theism, Problem of Evil, Thomas Oord, Tom Oord
Greg and Thomas talk about Open Theism and how Greg’s views differ from Thomas’s. Theology nerds, get your compass and your flashlight and prepare to go DEEEEEP in the weeds! Thomas’s book: God Can’t Episode…
Podcast: Confident Humility
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Dan Kent, Discipleship, Humility
The tables are turned. Greg interviews Dan Kent on his new book: “Confident Humility: Becoming Your Full Self Without Becoming Full of Yourself.” Available for pre-order now. Episode 472 The Interview: http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_CH_0472.mp3 ————— A Rebuttal…
Podcast: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Greg talks about a book he enjoyed: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0467.mp3
Podcast: The Making of Crucifixion of the Warrior God with Tony Jones
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Tony Jones
Dan and Tony talk about Greg’s books Crucifixion of the Warrior God and Cross Vision. Tony reveals what it was like to work with Greg, what the publishing industry is like right now, and what…
Podcast: The Frank Viola Interview on INSURGENCE
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Frank Viola
Greg and Frank talk Kingdom of God. Greg interviews best-selling author Frank Viola about his Insurgence. Why does the allegiance that radical terrorists give to their false cause exceed the allegiance that most Christians today…
Part 20 (of 20) — Peterson’s Appeal
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life Four months ago a young woman approached me after a church service, handed me 12 Rules of Life while saying, “You really needed to know what this guy is…
Part 17 (of 20)- Jordan Peterson on God
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “God, whoever or whatever he may be, is no simple granter of wishes.” Jordan Peterson In this post I would like to review and evaluate what Peterson has…
Part 16 (of 19): The Archetypal Christ
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “Christ’s archetypal death exists as an example of how to accept finitude, betrayal and tyranny heroically – how to walk with God despite the tragedy of self-conscious knowledge…
Part 15 (of 19?) — Making Sacrifice
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “There is a powerful call to proper Being in the story of the third temptation [of Jesus]. To obtain the greatest possible prize—the establishment of the Kingdom of God…
Part 14 (of 15) —Taking Responsibility (Part B)
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “If things are not going well for you – well, that might be because, as the most cynical of aphorisms has it, life sucks, and then you die….
Part 13 (of 15)— Taking Responsibility (Part A)
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd “If you’re not the leading man in your own drama, you’re a bit player in someone else’s.” Jordan Peterson If I had to sum up…
Podcast: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Greg talks about a book that he is reviewing called: The Faith of God: A Relational Theology of Divine Trust, Hope, and Love, by: William Holtzen. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0377.mp3
Podcast: Fresh Thoughts on Greg’s Blog Series on Jordan Peterson
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Greg gives an update on his thoughts on Jordan Peterson after having written a series critiquing his book 12 Rules of Life. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0376.mp3
Part 12 (of 15): Egalitarianism and The Kingdom Community
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Egalitarianism, Gender Roles, Jesus Feminist, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd As we saw earlier in this series (see: post 7), Peterson argues that social hierarchies among humans are as natural as they are among lobsters…
Part 11 (of 15): The Corruption of Creation
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd “With their capacity for aggression strait-jacketed within a too-narrow morality, those who are only or merely compassionate and self-sacrificing…cannot call forth the genuinely righteous and…
Part 10 (of 15): Who Gets To Interpret The World?
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Gender Roles, Jordan Peterson, masculinity, Women In Ministry
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd In my previous two posts (post 8 & post 9) I critically evaluated Peterson’s thinking on hierarchies, race and white privilege. In this post I’ll…