Re: [asa] Greg Boyd's Theodicy of Natural Evil

Seemingly at random :-) I stumbled today onto Gregory Boyd's blog and website.  Boyd is a controversial evangelical megachurch pastor who identifies with open theism (and is refreshingly blunt about evangelicals and American politics).  Apparently he recently was at a science-theology conference at Eastern Nazarene University, which included some luminaries such as Polkinghorne.  He (Boyd) is arguing for a theodicy of natural evil based on a primoridial angelic fall, which involves Satan in the distortion of nature, leading up to and including the fall of humanity.  Here is Boyd's blog post on his theory:  http://gregboyd.blogspot.com/2007/06/historical-fall-historical-redemption.html as well as a post on his conversation with Westmont College biology prof. Jeff Schloss:  http://gregboyd.blogspot.com/2007/06/satan-and-carnage-of-nature.html 

 

Has anyone heard of this theory before?