Almost Awakened: 126: Thomas Jay Oord – Open & Relational Theology – A Modern View Of God

Hartley and Reel sit down with Theologian and Philosopher Thomas Jay Oord to discuss Theology. Namely how Religion helps us connect with our inner and outer world. How humans are social creature who crave connection and whose minds seeks meaning constantly. Oord, Hartley, and Reel facilitate a conversation where we look into the role religion has played for likely hundreds of thousands of years and how in the modern moment in the midst of a collective deconstruction we may want to reconsider how many babies we throw out with the bath water. Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and multidisciplinary scholar who directs a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary and the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He formerly taught for sixteen years as a tenured professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho and before that a philosophy professor at Eastern Nazarene College. Oord is the author or editor of more than thirty books and hundreds of articles. He is known for his contributions to research on love, open theism, process theism, open and relational theology, postmodernism, the relationship between religion and science, Wesleyan, holiness, Nazarene theology. Oord is consistently ranked among the most influential academic theologians of our time. (Wikipedia) The post Almost Awakened: 126: Thomas Jay Oord – Open & Relational Theology – A Modern View Of God appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.