763: #763 - Nonviolence, “Open Theism,” and Heavy Metal: Greg Boyd
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this energetic conversation, Greg and Preston talk about various hot-button issues from nonviolence to nationalism in the church to Open-Theism (a term Greg doesn’t actually endorse), along with Annihlationism, hopeful Universalism, violence in the Old Testament, hermeneutics of hard passages, and Greg’s favorite less-then-sanctified heavy metal bands.
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He is pastor at Woodland Hills Church and the website there is www.whchurch.org Greg is President of Reknew www.reknew.org and he has a new book coming out in January called Inspired Imperfection which is published through Fortress Press.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw today is finally here |
| 0:05.6 | my guest today is the one and only dr Greg Boyd he know he needs no introduction |
| 0:11.6 | all I want to say is that he is has probably been the most requested |
| 0:16.7 | guest for the show. I have had so many people that said, when are you going to have Greg on? |
| 0:22.0 | When are you going to have Greg on when are you going to have Greg on he is a pastor he is a theologian he is an apologist and he's just honestly an |
| 0:29.9 | all-around fun guy to be around I so enjoyed this conversation. We talked about nonviolence. We talked |
| 0:36.5 | about nationalism. We talked about pastoral ministry. We talked about his |
| 0:41.7 | crazy view of violence in the Old Testament we talked about open theism and we talked |
| 0:48.7 | of all kinds of stuff it was so much fun and we talked about speed metal too by the way anyway. |
| 0:53.2 | Greg lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He pastors Woodland Hills Church in |
| 0:59.0 | Minneapolis and this is a good time to say that I am coming to Minneapolis on November 5th. |
| 1:06.0 | Let's see, what is that? |
| 1:07.0 | November 5th, I'll be speaking on sexuality and gender for an all day |
| 1:16.9 | pastors, leaders gathering through Transform Minnesota. This is technically a closed Leaders Forum but if you are part of the transform Minnesota community |
| 1:25.1 | which is several hundred churches I believe then I might be seeing you there in |
| 1:29.3 | Minneapolis Tuesday November 5th and then, I'm coming back to speak at |
| 1:34.0 | University of Northwestern, or is it Northwestern University, |
| 1:38.0 | on Monday, November 11th, and Tuesday, November 12th. |
| 1:41.3 | I'm not quite sure which of those events at Northwestern are open to the public. |
| 1:48.1 | I don't know. I just kind of get an airline ticket and say, all right, go speak here. |
| 1:52.5 | And so I go. |
| 1:53.0 | And so I'm not sure all the details there, |
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