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What is Open and Relational Theology?

Posted on December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 by Michael Rose

You may have heard the phrase Open & Relational Theology more these days, but maybe you aren’t sure what it’s all about. The following is a good summary of Open & Relational Theology based on the ideas of Thomas Jay Oord. It also does an excellent job of Oord’s solution to the problem of evil.

God Must Love

Posted on June 8, 2022November 21, 2022 by Michael Rose

Today’s post explores the Big Idea of Essential Kenosis and what it tells us about the nature/character of God.

Still Becoming: Renovation

Posted on June 2, 2022November 23, 2022 by Michael Rose

Open and Relational Theology has been a life saver for me, To be able to engage God and the world in ways that are consistent with my experience and intuitive sense of the God-who-is-love via the new eyes of good history, scripture, anthropology, philosophy, science and cosmology. It is affording me a way towards a more whole, very human life in the ongoing journey of becoming love.

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What is Open and Relational Theology?

God Must Love

Still Becoming: Renovation

What We Were Never Meant to Wash Away

What Love Does With What Is Broken

The Coals Ain't Cold

When the Cosmos Becomes Aware

You Were Never Outside