Creation Made Free: Open Theology Engaging Science

by Thomas Jay Oord (Editor)

Overview

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 dimensions both inform and are informed by Open Theology. Important themes addressed include evolution, creation ex nihilo, emergence theory, biblical cosmology, cognitive linguistics, quantum theory, and forgiveness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621894926
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	964 KB

About the Author

Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books and professor at Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, relational theology, science and religion, Wesleyan/Holiness/Church of the Nazarene thought and Evangelical theology. Oord serves in various consulting and administrative roles for academic institutions, scholarly projects, and research teams. He and his wife, Cheryl, have three daughters. Visit his blog at thomasjayoord.com
Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books and professor at Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, relational theology, science and religion, Wesleyan/Holiness/Church of the Nazarene thought and Evangelical theology. Oord serves in various consulting and administrative roles for academic institutions, scholarly projects, and research teams. He and his wife, Cheryl, have three daughters. Visit his blog at thomasjayoord.com

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Introducing Open Theology and Science 1

Part 1 Creation, Cosmology, and an Open God

Introduction to Part One 11

1 The Earth Is Not a Planet Karen Strand Winslow 113

2 An Open Theology Doctrine of Creation and Solution to the Problem of Evil Thomas Jay Oord 128

3 The (Brief) Openness Debate in Islamic Theology: And Why that Debate Should Be Different among Contemporary Christians Michael Lodahl 53

4 Rethinking Divine Presence and Activity in World Process Anna Case-Winters 69

5 Reality and the Primary Mind: Contemplating the Mind of God Brint Montgomery 88

Part 2 Evolution and the Open God

Introduction to Part Two 101

6 Evangelical Theology after Darwin Clark H. Pinnock 103

7 The Goodness of Creation and the Openness of God Craig A. Boyd 111

8 Evolution as Cosmic Warfare: A Biblical Perspective on Satan, and "Natural" Evil Gregory A. Boyd 125

Part 3 God's Knowledge and Scientific Theory

Introduction to Part Three 149

9 Beyond the Chess Master Analogy: Game Theory and Divine Providence Alan R. Rhoda 151

10 Does Heisenberg Uncertainty Apply to God? A Reliable Model of Divine Foreknowledge Alan G. Padgett 176

Part 4 Open God and Open Humanity

Introduction to Part Four 193

11 The Final Form of Love: The Science of Forgiveness and the Openness of God Richard Rice 195

12 Theological Muscle-Flexing: How Human Embodiment Shapes Discourse about God John Sanders 219

13 Emergence as Transformation: Exploring Personal Religious Experience as Promise in Open and Relational Theology Dean G. Blevins 237

Index 261