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Creation Made Free

Open Theology Engaging Science

Edited by Thomas Jay Oord ...

Open Theology offers an advantageous framework for engaging the sciences. With its emphasis upon creaturely freedom, relationality, realist epistemology, and love, Open Theology makes a fruitful dialogue partner with leading fields and theories in contemporary science. In Creation Made Free, leading proponents of open theism explore natural and social scientific dimensions of reality as these ... Read more

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Open Theology offers an advantageous framework for engaging the sciences. With its emphasis upon creaturely freedom, relationality, realist epistemology, and love, Open Theology makes a fruitful dialogue partner with leading fields and theories in contemporary science. In Creation Made Free, leading proponents of open theism explore natural and social scientific dimensions of reality as these
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Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence, The

by Thomas Jay Oord ...

Narrated by Thomas Jay Oord ...

Unabridged

5 hours 13 min

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 harmed and hurting wonder why an omnipotent and loving God doesn't prevent pointless pain. The problem of evil buries omnipotence six feet under.But the death of omnipotence is not the death of God.In this ground-breaking book, best-selling and award-winning ... Read more

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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 harmed and hurting wonder why an omnipotent and loving God doesn't prevent pointless pain. The problem of evil buries omnipotence six feet under.But the death of omnipotence is not the death of God.In this ground-breaking book, best-selling and award-winning
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Open and Relational Theology

An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas

by Thomas Jay Oord ...

Narrated by Thomas Jay Oord ...

Unabridged

5 hours 23 min

Most theologies suck.They’re too technical or they describe a God nobody understands. Sometimes the God portrayed sounds like a controlling boyfriend or absentee parent. Rather than woo or persuade, most theology books clobber readers into submission.This book is different.Thomas Jay Oord presents a theology that makes sense. It fits the way we live our lives and matches our deepest intuitions. To ... Read more

$15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Most theologies suck.They’re too technical or they describe a God nobody understands. Sometimes the God portrayed sounds like a controlling boyfriend or absentee parent. Rather than woo or persuade, most theology books clobber readers into submission.This book is different.Thomas Jay Oord presents a theology that makes sense. It fits the way we live our lives and matches our deepest intuitions. To
... Read more
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God Can't

How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils

by Thomas Jay Oord ...

Narrated by Thomas Jay Oord ...

Unabridged

6 hours 39 min

Hurting people ask heart-felt questions about God and suffering. The usual answers fail. They don't support the truth God loves everyone all the time. God Can't gives a believable answer to why a good and powerful doesn't prevent evil.Author Thomas Jay Oord says God’s love is inherently uncontrolling. God loves everyone and everything, soGod Can't is written in understandable language. Thomas Jay ... Read more

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Hurting people ask heart-felt questions about God and suffering. The usual answers fail. They don't support the truth God loves everyone all the time. God Can't gives a believable answer to why a good and powerful doesn't prevent evil.Author Thomas Jay Oord says God’s love is inherently uncontrolling. God loves everyone and everything, soGod Can't is written in understandable language. Thomas Jay
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Pluriform Love

by Thomas Jay Oord ...

"A masterpiece from the preeminent theologian of love!"Love is the center of Christian scripture and experience. And yet Christians often fail to give love center stage in biblical studies and theology.Why is this?Thomas Jay Oord offers ground-breaking answers to this crucial question. He addresses leading Christian thinkers of today and yesteryear and explores biblical forms of love, such as ... Read more

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"A masterpiece from the preeminent theologian of love!"Love is the center of Christian scripture and experience. And yet Christians often fail to give love center stage in biblical studies and theology.Why is this?Thomas Jay Oord offers ground-breaking answers to this crucial question. He addresses leading Christian thinkers of today and yesteryear and explores biblical forms of love, such as
... Read more
A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1

by Thomas Jay Oord ...

This is the first book ever written with the title A Systematic Theology of Love.That this book is the first should puzzle those who consider love central, if not primary, to God. And yet systematic theologians typically orient their theologies around other concerns, such as divine sovereignty, freedom, scripture, trinity, or mystery,Thomas Jay Oord not only puts love first, he also offers an ... Read more

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This is the first book ever written with the title A Systematic Theology of Love.That this book is the first should puzzle those who consider love central, if not primary, to God. And yet systematic theologians typically orient their theologies around other concerns, such as divine sovereignty, freedom, scripture, trinity, or mystery,Thomas Jay Oord not only puts love first, he also offers an
... Read more
Got My Own Song to Sing

Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome in My Family

by Jay Thomas Willis ...

I describe in this book how the Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome has historically and currently affected my own family, and subsequently many other Black families. The book suggests that pre-slavery, Middle Passage, post-slavery, and modern-day conditions contributed to the Black family’s pathologies. It goes on to demonstrate the manifestation of some of these specific problems in my family that has ... Read more

$3.99 USD

I describe in this book how the Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome has historically and currently affected my own family, and subsequently many other Black families. The book suggests that pre-slavery, Middle Passage, post-slavery, and modern-day conditions contributed to the Black family’s pathologies. It goes on to demonstrate the manifestation of some of these specific problems in my family that has
... Read more
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Open and Relational Theology

An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas

by Thomas Jay Oord ...

Narrated by Thomas Jay Oord ...

Unabridged

4 hours 40 min

Most theologies suck.They're too technical or they describe a God nobody understands. Sometimes the God portrayed sounds like a controlling boyfriend or absentee parent. Rather than woo or persuade, most theology books clobber readers into submission.This book is different.Thomas Jay Oord presents a theology that makes sense. It fits the way we live our lives and matches our deepest intuitions. To ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Most theologies suck.They're too technical or they describe a God nobody understands. Sometimes the God portrayed sounds like a controlling boyfriend or absentee parent. Rather than woo or persuade, most theology books clobber readers into submission.This book is different.Thomas Jay Oord presents a theology that makes sense. It fits the way we live our lives and matches our deepest intuitions. To
... Read more
The Uncontrolling Love of God

An Open and Relational Account of Providence

by Thomas Jay Oord ...

IVP Readers' Choice AwardRarely does a new theological position emerge to account well for life in the world, including not only goodness and beauty but also tragedy and randomness. Drawing from Scripture, science, philosophy and various theological traditions, Thomas Jay Oord offers a novel theology of providence—essential kenosis—that emphasizes God's inherently noncoercive love in relation to ... Read more

$26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

IVP Readers' Choice AwardRarely does a new theological position emerge to account well for life in the world, including not only goodness and beauty but also tragedy and randomness. Drawing from Scripture, science, philosophy and various theological traditions, Thomas Jay Oord offers a novel theology of providence—essential kenosis—that emphasizes God's inherently noncoercive love in relation to
... Read more
1 Corinthians

A 12-Week Study

by Jay S. Thomas, J. I. Packer, Dane Ortlund, Lane T. Dennis ...

Series series Knowing the Bible
The Knowing the Bible series is a resource designed to help Bible readers better understand and apply God's Word. These 12-week studies lead participants through books of the Bible and are made up of four basic components: (1) Reflection questions help readers engage the text at a deeper level; (2) "Gospel Glimpses" highlight the gospel of grace throughout each book; (3) "Whole-Bible Connections" ... Read more

$8.99 USD

The Knowing the Bible series is a resource designed to help Bible readers better understand and apply God's Word. These 12-week studies lead participants through books of the Bible and are made up of four basic components: (1) Reflection questions help readers engage the text at a deeper level; (2) "Gospel Glimpses" highlight the gospel of grace throughout each book; (3) "Whole-Bible Connections"
... Read more
God in an Open Universe

Science, Metaphysics, and Open Theism

Edited by William Hasker, Thomas Jay Oord, Dean Zimmerman ...

Since its inception, the discussion surrounding Open Theism has been dominated by polemics. On crucial philosophical issues, Openness proponents have largely been devoted to explicating the underlying framework and logical arguments supporting their perspective against competing theological and philosophical perspectives. As a result, very little constructive work has been done on the ... Read more

$17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Since its inception, the discussion surrounding Open Theism has been dominated by polemics. On crucial philosophical issues, Openness proponents have largely been devoted to explicating the underlying framework and logical arguments supporting their perspective against competing theological and philosophical perspectives. As a result, very little constructive work has been done on the
... Read more
Open and Relational Theology and its Social and Political Implications

by Thomas Jay Oord ...

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. This way, as "Open and Relational Theology and its Social and Political Implications: Muslim and Christian Perspectives" posits, aligns beautifully with important and ancient thinking from both traditions. Our world ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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. This way, as "Open and Relational Theology and its Social and Political Implications: Muslim and Christian Perspectives" posits, aligns beautifully with important and ancient thinking from both traditions. Our world
... Read more

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