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Greg Boyd

The Shocking Violence of Greg Boyd’s “Non-Violent” God

August 5, 2021 by Randal

Greg Boyd’s book “The Crucifixion of the Warrior God” has been widely praised for offering a provocative non-violent account of biblical violence. But a closer look reveals the book actually attributes surprisingly violent actions and intentions to God. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, Greg Boyd, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God

Inspired Imperfection: A Review

April 9, 2020 by Randal

Gregory A. Boyd. Inspired Imperfection: How the Bible’s Problems Enhance Its Authority (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2020). The postscript to Gregory Boyd’s new book Inspired Imperfection tells the story of a woman whose beloved vase was broken into several pieces. Devastated, she initially sought a restorer who might bring the ceramic back to its original, pristine condition. However, even the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, Greg Boyd, hermeneutics, review

1 Samuel 15 and Paul Copan’s Middling Compromise

January 30, 2018 by Randal

This week  “Unbelievable” featured Part 2 of an exchange between Paul Copan and Greg Boyd on Boyd’s new book The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. In Part 2, Justin Brierley and his two guests focus in on particular biblical texts to see how each position deals with the text in question. The first major text under discussion is 1 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, ethics, Greg Boyd, hermeneutics, Justin Brierley, Paul Copan

The Violent God Debate: An Unbelievable Review

January 22, 2018 by Randal

This week’s episode of Unbelievable features a debate between Paul Copan and Greg Boyd regarding Boyd’s new book The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. I will not be rehearsing the various arguments here, so I definitely advise you take the time to listen to this excellent exchange (the first of two rounds). Instead, I will offer […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical interpretation, biblical violence, ethics, Greg Boyd, Justin Brierley, Paul Copan

Meticulous Providence, Open Theism, and Twittery: A response to Greg Boyd

November 6, 2015 by Randal

The other day I came across this tweet by Greg Boyd (courtesy of a Justin Brierley retweet). The tweet consists of an advertising graphic for the upcoming film God’s Not Dead 2 accompanied with Boyd’s wry twittery. What’s “twittery”, you ask? I coined the term to refer to the following: twittery. n. “pithy statements which […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Greg Boyd, meticulous providence, open theism, twitter, twittery

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