open and relational theologies group...
2006 Meeting
What God Does, Might, or Cannot Know about the Future
(Official Open and Relational Theologies Session)Chair: Thomas Jay Oord (Northwest Nazarene University)
- Karen Winslow (Azusa Pacific University) - The Hope of God vs the Knowledge of God
- Bruce Epperly (Lancaster Theological Seminary) - Surprising God: Prayer, Partnership, and the Divine Adventure
- Gregory Boyd (Woodland Hills Church) - An Adventurous Sovereignty: Risk Taking and the Infinite Intelligence of God
- John Culp (Azusa Pacific University) - I Know Who Holds the Future, But Not the Future
- Response: Terrence Fretheim (Luther Seminary)
- PHOTO: Thomas Oord and Karen Winslow
Intelligent Design: Theological Considerations
(Open and Relational Theologies sponsored Hot Topics Session)Chair: Thomas Jay Oord (Northwest Nazarene University)
- Taede Smedes (Leiden University) - Intelligent Design & Theology: What Place for the Creator?
- Anna Case-Winters (McCormick Theological Seminary)- The Theological Stakes of Intelligent Design
- Brian Madison (Duke University) - Implications of Intelligent Design Theory for Cosmos as Creature and God as Creator
- Palmyre Oomen (Radboud University Nijmegen / Heyendaal - The Theological Failure of 'Intelligent Design' and a Whiteheadian Alternative
Institute)- Response: Jim Miller (American Academy for the Advancement of Science)
- PHOTO: Brian Madison and Jim Miller
Are Openness and Relational Theologies Biblical?
(Joint Session with AAR Open and Relational Theologies group and the SBL group, Latter Day Saints and the Bible)Chair: Lynne Faber Lorenzen (Augsburg College) and John Welch (Brigham Young University)
- John Sanders (Hendrix College) - "Clear as Day: Metaphorical and Literal Readings of Scripture in the Open Theism Debate"
- James M. McLachlan (Western Carolina University) - "Open Readings of Genesis: Jacob Boehme's Mysterium Magnum and Joseph Smith's Books of Moses, Abraham, and The Book of Mormon"
- Michael Lodahl (Point Loma Nazarene University) - "The Human's Naming of the Creatures as the World's (and God's) Open Future: A Conflict of Interpretations among Jews, Muslims and Mormons"
- David Paulsen (Brigham Young University) - "Opening the Bible: Open Canon and Openness Theology"
- PHOTO: The Panel
