Gregory A. Boyd
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Gregory A. "Greg" Boyd is an evangelical pastor, theologian, and author. He is Senior Pastor of the Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.[1]
Boyd graduated from Yale Divinity School and Princeton Theological Seminary, and was Professor of Theology at Bethel University for many years. There he became acquainted with the process theology of Charles Hartshorne, whom Boyd considered 'essentially correct' in philosophical/theologic understanding of the nature of God and the future. ('Trinity and Process', pg.1-3). His book 'Letters to a Skeptic' (1995) contains much Hartshornian philosophy that was later expanded in the book God of the Possible (2000) in which he described open theism, the view that the future is open and therefore known to God partly as a realm of possibilities. Proponents of the traditional view of God within the Baptist General Conference tried unsuccessfully to have the rules of the denomination changed to exclude Boyd and other Open Theists.[2]
In a New York Times profile in July 2006, Boyd said he had lost 20% of his congregation because he refused to lend his support publicly to conservative political causes.[3] In the same vein, he authored the book The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church (2006).
Boyd was a former Oneness Pentecostal, and wrote the book Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity (1992) critiquing the movement's doctrine of God. He charged Oneness denominations such as the United Pentecostal Church with legalism for their teachings on issues such as baptism and hair length.
[edit] Authored Books
- Trinity and Process: Toward a Synthesis(1986)
- Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity (1992) ISBN 0801010195
- Cynic Sage or Son of God? (1995) ISBN 0801021189
- Jesus Under Siege (1995) ISBN 1564765334
- Letters From a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity (1995) ISBN 1564762440
- God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict (1997) ISBN 0830818855
- God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God (2000) ISBN 080106290X
- Satan & the Problem of Evil: Constructing a Trinitarian Warfare Theodicy (2001) ISBN 0830815503
- Is God to Blame?: Moving Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Evil (2003) ISBN 0830823948
- Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God (2004) ISBN 0801065062
- Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus Through Imaginative Prayer (2004) ISBN 080106502X
- Escaping The Matrix: Setting Your Mind Free To Experience Real Life In Christ (2005) ISBN 080106533X
- The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church (2006) ISBN 0310267307
[edit] References
- ^ Woodland Hills Church website
- ^ "Did Open Debate Help The Openness Debate?" Christianity Today, February 19, 2001
- ^ "Disowning Conservative Politics" NY Times, 30 July 2006
