God After Deconstruction
Bad views of God and harmful experiences lead many of us to deconstruct. But we’re right to run from the nonsense we’ve been taught and… Read More »God After Deconstruction
Bad views of God and harmful experiences lead many of us to deconstruct. But we’re right to run from the nonsense we’ve been taught and… Read More »God After Deconstruction
For decades, millions of Christians have been leaving church behind. Among those who have stayed, not only individuals, but entire congregations are rejecting traditions that… Read More »Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God: Sermons, Essays, and Worship Elements from the Perspective of Open, Relational, and Process Theology
With its emphasis on relation over substance and possibility over predetermined endings, open and relational theology provides a way forward for both Muslims and Christians.… Read More »Open and Relational Theology and its Social and Political Implications: Muslim and Christian Perspectives
Meaning is not simply discovered but created. Two exceptional thinkers who can help us with this creative meaning-making process are the French academic René Girard… Read More »Processing Mimetic Reality: Harmonizing Alfred North Whitehead and René Girard
In Metaphysics of Exo-Life, Andrew M. Davis offers a constructive philosophical response to historian Steven J. Dick’s “naturalistic cosmotheology” from within the process metaphysics of… Read More »Metaphysics of Exo-Life: Toward a Constructive Whiteheadian Cosmotheology
Omnipotence is dead. At least it should be. It has no biblical support. And it dies a death of a thousand qualifications in philosophy. Those… Read More »The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence
That love does not control seems obvious to many people. And yet the temptation to control—often with good motives — is strong. The long-term results… Read More »Love Does Not Control: Therapists, Psychologists, and Counselors Explore Uncontrolling Love
John Cobb is a Christian Theologian. Yet, he is just as likely to be known to economists, scientists, philosophers, environmentalists, educators, and activists. Some could… Read More »John B. Cobb, Jr: Selected Writings from a Christian Theologian
Perhaps no modern church dogma has been more destructive to the mission of Jesus, created more atheists, or generated more religious trauma than that of… Read More »Deconstructing Hell: Open and Relational Responses to the Doctrine of Eternal Conscious Torment
In the world’s first formal attempt at blending René Girard’s scapegoating theory with open and relational theology, Jonathan J. Foster offers compelling insights into anthropology,… Read More »Theology of Consent: Mimetic Theory in an Open and Relational Universe