Pluriform Love

An Open and Relational Theology of Well-Being

De: Thomas Oord

Narrado por: Thomas Jay Oord

Duración: 9 h y 3 m

Resumen del Editor

A masterpiece from the premier theologian of love!

A strong case can be made that love is the core of Christian faith. And yet, Christians often fail to give love center stage in biblical studies and theology. And, most fail to explain what they mean by love. Why is this? Thomas Jay Oord explores this question and offers groundbreaking answers. Oord addresses leading Christian thinkers today and of yesteryear. He explains biblical forms of love, such as agape, philia, hesed, and ahavah. We should understand love’s meaning as uniform, he says, but its expressions are pluriform.

Widely regarded as the world's foremost theologian of love, Thomas Jay Oord tackles our biggest puzzles about the nature and meaning of love, divinity, and creaturely. His proposals are novel. They align with love described in Scripture and expressed in everyday experience. Oord also provides radical and yet persuasive answers to questions about evil, hell, the Big Bang, divine violence, divine abandonment, and more. Pluriform Love changes the landscape of Christian love studies.

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A must understand for serious injuries of the nature of God.

Dr. Oord manages to articulate the reason we have a convoluted understanding of God based in traditional theology. He identifies the ancient philosophies that had dominated the thinking and writings of Augustine and others that held sway over traditional christian thought and Oord dismantles those unbiblical errors thoroughly. Then he presents alternative understanding that “makes sense” and clearly describes God is Love, what that in-tells and why knowing God is Love as a priority is paramount to life.

Allowing the Biblical Narrative to Guide Theology

Tom allows the bible to form theological convictions. The hold classical theology can hold on both progressive and traditional theologies is chipped away as Oord continues to use the full biblical text to outline the characteristics of love as an essential aspect of God's nature. Emerging from this Oord dialogs with theologians and the traditions which have emerged, revealing how they align with the biblical text.

Of significance is Oord's ability to provide God's essential love as a through line for dealing with theodicy. Clarifying God's creative nature, and the lack of biblical support for God's action of so-called, "creation from nothing", Oord can begin to bring a response to the question of God's assumed culpability with evil.