The Uncontrolling Love of God - by Thomas Jay Oord (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Rarely does a new theological position emerge to account well for life in the world, including not only goodness and beauty but also tragedy and randomness. Drawing from Scripture, science, philosophy and various theological traditions, Thomas Jay Oord offers a novel theology of providence--essential kenosis--that emphasizes God's inherently noncoercive love in relation to creation.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><ul> <li>2016 IVP Readers' Choice Award</li> </ul><p>Rarely does a new theological position emerge to account well for life in the world, including not only goodness and beauty but also tragedy and randomness. Drawing from Scripture, science, philosophy and various theological traditions, Thomas Jay Oord offers a novel theology of providence--essential kenosis--that emphasizes God's inherently noncoercive love in relation to creation. <em>The Uncontrolling Love of God</em> provides a clear and powerful response to one of the perennial challenges to Christian faith.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>Uncontrolling</em> is unquestionably Oord's most comprehensive theological contribution to date. In it he coheres many of his thoughts into a single volume and presents a rational, systematic defense of his doctrine of essential kenosis. As Oord has done for some time, at great personal cost, he upholds God's self-giving, others-empowering love as God's divine attribute; it is love that defines God's providence and ultimately, God's power. Without a doubt, Oord's solution to the problem of evil and the suffering of individuals in the case studies he presents, is more appealing than classical alternatives. Oord has done original theological and philosophical heavy-lifting that Pentecostal and Charismatic scholars should engage, appreciate, and appropriate as highly compatible with the theological distinctives of our own movements.</p>--Joshua D. Reichard, Pneuma, Vol. 38, 2016<br><br><p>Although it is worthy on its own terms, <em>The Uncontrolling Love of God</em> is perhaps best digested in dialogue with other voices. . . . Oord fills a critical gap in the literature of open and relational theology, and he offers a clear, biblically sound, cruciform answer to the problem of evil and God's providence, while avoiding the pitfalls of divine culpability that previous models of providence fall into.</p>--Benjamin L. Corey, The Christian Century, July 20, 2016<br><br><p>Oord has written a wonderful book. In his book he offers an interesting way to understand God, an understanding that may free readers from some of their struggles with the problem of evil, and free them to embrace 'the uncontrolling love of God.' . . . I recommend this book.</p>--Derek Maris, A Journal for the Theology of Culture, Volume 12, Number 1<br><br><p>Oord's accessible and far-reaching book provides an imaginative model of providence where love is placed at the center. . . . Oord can be applauded for challenging our assumptions and calling us to think afresh about the nature of God in relation to evil.</p>--Jordan Wessling, Journal of Reformed Theology 11 (2017)<br><br><p>Oord's work is a constructive attempt to provide answers to very complex questions in a way that seeks to satisfy human experience, findings from contemporary science, and doctrines of the Christian faith.</p>--Jacob R. Lett, Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 1<br><br><p>The book is beautifully and clearly written.</p>--Jonathan Clatworthy, Modern Believing, 57, 4<br><br><p>Thomas Oord's <em>The Uncontrolling Love of God</em> is an ambitious book offering a new account of divine sovereignty, divine interaction with creation, a new response to the problem of evil, and other issues needed for a plausible model of God. This account is presented in accessible prose, suitable for any college educated reader.</p>--Eric J. Silverman, Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 266, January 1, 2017<br><br><p>Tom's purpose here is to offer an explanation for divine agency in the midst of randomness in a way that respects freedom and embraces relationality. . . . It is, I will say, another fine book from a most thoughtful and thought-provoking theologian.</p>--Robert Cornwall, Ponderings on a Faith Journey, October 1, 2015<br>
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