RE: [TruthTalk] Religious Books

[Slade Henson]

Jonathan. I would be honored to receive one of Boyd's books. For clarification purposes, I am not into "Openness." I will email you my address privately, though.   -- slade  -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Jonathan Hughes Sent: Thursday, 15 July, 2004 10:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Religious Books Hi Judy,   A welcome back from me as well.   Regarding the Gregory Boyd book:  I understand your hesitation regarding him.  I said to Lance two days ago, “I wish someone else had written this book.”  There has been much controversy in Boyd’s Open View of God.  There is only one paragraph that hints at this view in the book as well as one (maybe two) footnotes that point the reader to other books that he has written on the subject.  I fear that people will not read this book because of Boyd’s adherence to Openness Theory (sometimes called freewill-theism although they are mildly different).  That being said I also told Lance that this was the best/most important book I had read in three years.  I am a voracious reader.  To place a book that high on my list of ‘most important’ is not easily achieved.  It was this book (and the exposition of a number of scriptures within it) that the Spirit used to convict me of my judgment on this forum (especially towards you).   One of my reasons for being so excited about this book is that there is no reference to Torrance or any of the rest of the group of theologians that have helped shape my views.  To have someone come from the outside and yet arrive at many of the same conclusions is very interesting to me.  His website is http://www.gregboyd.org/gbfront/.  Boyd has been popular in some circles for a long time now.  He is also the author of a book from 1989 entitled ‘Letters to a Skeptic.’  It won book of the year award if I remember correctly.   To anyone on this forum that is interested:  I will buy and mail you this book.  If you don’t like it you can toss it at no loss to yourself.  Just send me a response and I will attempt to get them in the mail in the upcoming week.  You may send your address to my email [EMAIL PROTECTED] in case you do not want it on the forum.   Jonathan