Tag: Greg Boyd
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Foreknowledge: God of the Impossible?
Does God know the future, in detail, the way he knows the present and the past? After last month’s look at God and time, it is now time (ahem) to ask this follow-up question. One book arguing against God’s foreknowledge has the curious title God of the Possible (Boyd 2001), which makes me wonder. You…
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Crucifying the Warrior God (Boyd Project 5)
It is time to wrap up. How does Boyd’s cruciform hermeneutic work when it is applied to actual Bible passages? In the first volume of The Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Boyd posits the cross as the centre and foundation of Christian theology. From this, he derives, through deduction, what God can and cannot have…
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A Peculiar Blend of Cruciform (Boyd Project 4)
The previous issue dealt with chapter 1-6 of Greg Boyd’s monumental book, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. It presents Boyd’s general theory of interpretation, which can be summarized in one word: cruciform. The second half of volume 1, chapter 7-12, deals more specifically with the problem of violence in Scripture and discusses possible solutions.…
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A Cruciform Hermeneutic (Boyd Project 3)
In this third issue on Boyd’s monumental work, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God, I begin to interact with the book itself. In the first six chapters, Boyd gives us his general theory of interpretation or, in one word, his hermeneutic. Before I dive into this, I need to vent a major frustration I have…
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War in Joshua (Boyd Project 2)
I continue my exploration of the conquest of Canaan; this issue is all about the book of Joshua. If taken at face value, Joshua may be the most violent book in the Old Testament (OT). What do we make of this book today? What did God command? And what does that highly peculiar Hebrew word…
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The Conquest of Canaan (Boyd Project 1)
I am launching a project that will take me several issues to complete. The subject is a big one: what some people refer to as the violence of God in the Old Testament (OT). Gregory Boyd has written a voluminously fat book about this: The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s Violent…