Uncontrolling Love: Essays Exploring the Love of God, with Introductions by Thomas Jay Oord
Lisa Michaels,Craig Drurey,Chris Baker,Gloria Coffin,Graden Kirksey,Donna Fiser Ward
Language: English
Published by SacraSage Press June 2017, 2017
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- Title
- Uncontrolling Love: Essays Exploring the Love of God, with Introductions by Thomas Jay Oord
- Author
- Lisa Michaels,Craig Drurey,Chris Baker,Gloria Coffin,Graden Kirksey,Donna Fiser Ward
- Publisher
- SacraSage Press June 2017
- Publication year
- 2017
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- USED Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0692884947
- ISBN 13
- 9780692884942
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- RELIGION Christianity
What if God is not in control? And what if this lack of control isn’t because God is weak or uninvolved? What if, instead, God’s powerful and universal love is inherently uncontrolling?
In this book, more than eighty writers explore uncontrolling love, an idea first suggested by Thomas Jay Oord in his award-winning work, The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence (IVP Academic). Contributors explore uncontrolling love in practical, political, scientific, personal, economic, biblical, ethical, and philosophical dimensions. Many tell stories and pose questions. Others offer novel ideas to make sense of life or promote well-being. Oord offers introductions to key ideas and concepts.
“This book is amazing! Each essay contains precisely worded insights and thoughtful, practical responses to Oord’s book, The Uncontrolling Love of God. Essayists cite their own reasons for recognizing, claiming, and articulating what Oord calls “essential kenosis theology.” In an array of accessible vignettes, essayists illustrate Oord’s relational thesis: God’s love is necessarily self-giving and others-empowering.
-- Karen Winslow, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biblical Studies, Azusa Pacific University
“Jesus proclaimed God as a loving parent, and this basic approach dominates in the New Testament. But many people revere controlling power more than love. Thomas Jay Oord has reclaimed the good news of the uncontrolling love of God. Many rejoice and respond with uncontrolling love for one another and all God’s creatures. This book embodies the response of the church, lay people and pastors, students and teachers, liberals and conservatives. Readers can join in this work of theology by witnessing to what a loving God is doing in the world.”
-- John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University
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