JUNE 29 – JULY 3, 2026 Held at the beautiful Grand Targhee Resort in the Grand Teton mountains of Wyoming, ORTCON26 is an in-person conference exploring topics in Open and Relational Theology. …
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Thomas Jay Oord has published an open and relational systematic theology of love! Oord dedicates the book to a number of open and relational thinkers, including John B. Cobb, Jr., …
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How Love Points to Immortality By Greg Hoover Most arguments for the existence of God begin with the universe. They start with motion, causality, design, or fine tuning. They look …
By Ian Todd 1)Why another theology? Thomas Aquinas is one of the most famous Christian theologians. However, in 1273, he abruptly stopped writing his great work Summa Theologiae and never …
(Draft dated 3-15-26) by Charles E. Stephan Introduction Thomas Jay Oord’s Primacy-of-Love Christianity (POLC) is the most believable version of Christianity because other versions of Christianity are plagued by one …
By Cypress Brannon W. Norman Pittenger (1905 – 1997) was a prolific writer and noteworthy voice in the process-theological tradition. While Pittenger is well known for his process worldview, …
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By Greg Hoover For many people today, belief in God does not collapse under science or skepticism. It collapses under moral pressure. The traditional image of an all-controlling God becomes …
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By Thomas Jay Oord In early 2025, two massive volumes of edited essays were published exploring the idea of amipotence. Between the two books, there are 150+ essays! The first …
Open and Relational Theology Online Conference in 2026 Feb 12 at 8am to Feb 14 at 5pm MST Eventbrite Registration Page Three days of online interaction with world-changing authors in …
By William Yarchin Is covenant theology is salvageable? Yes, and on the Bible’s own terms. The failure of transactional dynamics in covenant theology is exposed in some biblical compositions such …
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