Ex Nihilo and Other Creation Theories

(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 — […]

Open and Relational Biblical Issues

Chad Bahl and I contributed a chapter to a massive handbook on postconservative interpretation. The book is aimed at college students, and our task was to sketch out an open and relational vision. Here’s what we wrote… Open and Relational Hermeneutics Open and Relational Theology (ORT) addresses key questions about biblical inspiration, interpretation, inerrancy, authority, […]

Love and the Timeless God

Philosophy always plays a role in Christian theology. This isn’t a bad thing; philosophy isn’t inherently evil. We’re all philosophers, in the general sense of thinking about things, and all theologies have philosophical assumptions. In fact, every statement about love – scholarly or not – incorporates philosophy, at least in the broad sense. Some philosophies […]