Thomas à Kempis and Imitating God

I’ve been working on an essay about what it might mean to imitate God. My argument will be that open and relational theology provides a helpful framework to make sense of this idea. The classical theism of Augustine and others does not help. Here’s an excerpt of my argument for why Thomas à Kempis […]

3 Reasons It Matters to Believe God is Relational

“It doesn’t matter whether we think God is relational,” a friend recently quipped. “God is just God.” Well… I disagree! In recent blog essay’s I’ve explored what it means to say God is relational. In this post, I want to briefly note 3 reasons why it matters to believe God is relational. A […]

Love in Relational Theology

For some Christians, issues of love are of utmost importance. Accounting for the importance of love is just one reason many are turning to relational theology to make some sense of God and the world in which we live.