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

I 1st encountered Boyd's ideas quite recently when reading a volume to which he contributed an essay, The Nature of the Atonement (edited by James Beilby & Paul R. Eddy, IVP, 2006). Boyd presented the Christus Victor view of the atonement. I thought his essay OK but when one of the other contributors in his respose sketched some of Boyd's stuff about demonic powers &c (from a previous book of Boyd's) I thought it sounded pretty bizarre & open to a lot of challenges.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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  From: David Opderbeck
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  Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:07 PM
  Subject: [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?

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Received on Tue Jul 17 16:36:12 2007