WATCH GRID: Everything has always been new
The process conception of God offers both a source of refreshment and a sense of relevant novelty, as well as a sense of companionship, because this is not a God that exists outside the world. This is a God who suffers with the world, as much subject as object, as much a lack as a presence. I do think there is a radical negativity in this vision in... See more
Matthew David Segall • Reflections on my dialogue with Peter Rollins
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth” (Is. 65:17). In the New Testament the gospel of Christ is similarly described. Hebrews 10:20 says that the gospel is “the new and living way.” And Jesus said as he instituted the Lord’s Supper, “this is my blood of the [new] covenant” (Mt. 26:28). God is a God of newness. On the one hand he is the
... See moreHoward A. Snyder • The Problem of Wineskins: Church Structure In a Technological Age
The universe is a welter of endless change as we and all around us reach the present as a result of the choices we have made, the “choices” creation has made, and the God-infused lure toward innovation, creativity, and righteousness. Process thinker Charles Hartshorne referred to that fundamental reality not as ontology but as hyathology, from God’
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