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A Systematic Theology of Love
Volume 1: God and Creation
Book • 2026
In 'A Systematic Theology of Love: Volume One,' Thomas Jay Oord constructs a progressive, open and relational systematic theology organized around love as the orienting concept.
The book uses abductive reasoning, integrates insights from science and philosophy, and argues for a universal spirit who is both mental and genuinely material without a localized body.
Oord challenges traditional claims such as creatio ex nihilo, proposes creatio ex creatione semper in amore (everlasting creation out of creation and love), and develops doctrines including a revised account of omnipotence, divine embodiment, and panentheistic relations.
The volume sets theological groundwork for subsequent volumes that will address Christology, divine hiddenness, and soteriology, and it has been shaped in part through Substack feedback prior to publication.
The book uses abductive reasoning, integrates insights from science and philosophy, and argues for a universal spirit who is both mental and genuinely material without a localized body.
Oord challenges traditional claims such as creatio ex nihilo, proposes creatio ex creatione semper in amore (everlasting creation out of creation and love), and develops doctrines including a revised account of omnipotence, divine embodiment, and panentheistic relations.
The volume sets theological groundwork for subsequent volumes that will address Christology, divine hiddenness, and soteriology, and it has been shaped in part through Substack feedback prior to publication.
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