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In early 2025, two massive volumes of edited essays were published exploring the idea of amipotence. Between the two books, there are 150+ essays! The first of the two volumes is titled Amipotence: Support and Criticism. The second is Amipotence: Expansion and Application. Essayists responded to my book, The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of […]

I’m finishing the first of a three-volume, systematic theology of love. In a chapter on providence, I address the problem of evil. I’ve written about the problem of evil in many books, but I chose a different approach to the topic for this one. I decided to look carefully at two influential New Testament scholars […]

As part of the systematic theology of love I’m writing, I address providence. And part of a chapter on providence explores God’s relation with creation. Below is an excerpt of that chapter, and it explains panentheism and theoenpanism. To read the whole chapter and eleven previous ones, check out my Substack account. Panentheism The intimate […]

(This is chapter ten of the systematic theology of love in progress. Free subscribers get a portion of the chapter; paid subscribers get the entire chapter. Paid subscribers [only $8 a month] will also get a signed copy of the book and be mentioned in the book’s acknowledgements. Consider subscribing!) Just about every believer — […]

The recent shooting at a back-to-school mass in Minnesota has many people asking: Where was God? A gunman killed two children and injured eighteen others at Annunciation Catholic Church. In response, there’s a renewed call for gun reform and a dialogue about how to prevent future shootings. Many also wonder why an allegedly omnipotent God […]

Augustine’s beliefs about God and time have been highly influential in Western civilization, especially among Christians. Scholars often cite his beliefs about divine immutability and impassibility. But Augustine’s belief in a timeless God and waffling about the reality of time powerfully shaped the history of theology. The Confessions may be the most influential book from […]

It’s obvious to many believers that God is personal, relational, and experiences emotions. Christian, Jewish, and Muslim scriptures routinely describe deity in this way.[1] These abilities and attributes also seem required if the Spirit is loving, because lovers are persons who act and feel in relationships. It makes sense, therefore, for this systematic theology of […]

I enjoyed watching the recent Shiny Happy People documentary on Ron Luce and Teen Mania. The series conclusion disappointed me, however. I think producers missed an opportunity to explore a theological claim that could have motivated Ron Luce more than his concern for teen culture or politics. A Teenage Holy War The Amazon Prime, three-part […]

In my systematic theology of love, I argue that believers should reject the idea God is omnipotent. They should embrace the notion that God’s power is uncontrolliong love. I call this “amipotence:” ami=love; potence=power. The amipotent view stands between two adjacent concepts of divine power. SECOND ALTERNATIVE TO AMIPOTENCE One concept says God’s power is […]

In a recently published Substack essay, I looked at arguments for and against saying God is a being. I propose a new way to think about God I call “gino-theology.” In that Substack essay, I argued that we best think of God as an everlastingly becoming Spirit. That’s gino-theology. By “becoming,” I mean the Spirit […]