The Uncontrollable Love of God

Details to book here: https://www.sarum.ac.uk/short-courses/uncontrolling-love/

To say that God cannot control anyone or anything has positive implications for thinking about suffering and evil.

The implications are even broader. It helps when thinking about dramatic religious experiences, or the lack thereof. It helps us make sense of scripture, both the profoundly helpful and hurtful parts. It helps us consider issues of climate change, politics, the hiddenness of God, and deconstruction.

But can a God who can’t control create the universe? Can this God “win” at the eschaton? How do we pray if God is uncontrolling? And what about miracles?

This course lays out all of the implications and proposes constructive answers to the biggest questions we should ask about an uncontrolling love theology.

with Thomas Jay Oord, PhD, a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. Oord directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology and doctoral students at Northwind Theological Seminary. He is an award-winning author and has written or edited more than thirty books. A gifted speaker, Oord lectures at universities, conferences, churches, and institutions.

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