Driscoll
Trigger Warning: Those who have experienced abuse may be particularly sensitive to the content of this blog. In case you haven’t heard the news,1 Mark Driscoll, pastor of the megachurch and national...
View ArticleOpenness Theodicy and Victimization
Warning! This is a super-academic post. If you’ve been reading my posts on theodicy, you may have noticed that I find victimhood a particularly troubling aspect of the problem of evil, and a terrible...
View ArticleTheodicy and Equity
Sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to posting. I had the plan of my next post being my fully-formed theodicy, but I kept on writing and writing until I realized I could write a small book. That’s...
View ArticleGod’s Emotions
Debate about God’s emotional relationship to creation has been raging amongst Open Theists on Open Theist facebook pages for a little while. The debate has centered around the degree to which God is...
View ArticleGod’s Emotions #2
The Distinction: Thanks to Chad, Alan, T.C., Dwayne and Tom for helpful comments on my last blog post. There I sought to bring some clarity to the raging discussion about God’s emotions by drawing a...
View ArticleGod’s Emotions: Reply to Tom
I always appreciate it when somebody wants to understand me better, and I will jump at the chance to clarify what I mean. So thanks to Tom over at An Open Orthodoxy for asking some crucial questions...
View Article“Open Theism”
Alan Rhoda wrote a philosophical piece a while back articulating what he finds to be the essential beliefs of “Open Theism.”1 In effect, these are that there is an all-powerful God who created the...
View ArticleDougherty on Animal Theodicy
Earlier stages of this blog included my musings on theodicy. I also gave special attention to theodicy as it pertains to the animal kingdom. Trent Dougherty was just recently interviewed here by Open...
View ArticleOpen Theism and Environmental Responsibilities
You may recognize the namesake of this post from searching Amazon.com for books on Open Theism. To date, the book only has one review there – two sentences from Thomas Jay Oord. Someone on Goodreads...
View ArticleChrist and Open Theism
There’s a concept you may have heard before called “kenosis.” The concept simply refers to the foregoing of control over others to be or become vulnerable to them out of love.1 Theologians believe...
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