This year for Advent I’ve been working my way through John Polkinghorne’s Advent devotional book Living with Hope. Polkinghorne is a theoretical physicist turned Anglican
Category: Public theology
Assorted Thoughts on Process Theology
I recently finished Process Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed by Bruce Epperly. This wasn’t my first exposure to process theology, but it was the
“Panpsychism”: is the universe alive with consciousness? Some parallels with early Mormon theology.
In Chapter 5 of Until the End of Time, physicist Brian Greene describes a niche scientific theory that has has deep roots and/or parallels in
Materialism, free will, and sin: more musings from Chapter 4 of “Until the End of Time” by Brian Greene
Chapter 5 of Until the End of Time by Brian Greene is a tour-de-force all by itself. In the span of about 45 pages, the
Questions that guide thinking and faith about a historical Resurrection
“It doesn’t matter if Jesus was actually raised from the dead; what matters is that we believe he was raised from the dead.” Discuss. This
The Big Bang, creation ex nihilo, and “God of the Gaps”: thoughts on Chapter 3 of “Until the End of Time” by Brian Greene
“A model of Life, the Universe, and Everything that integrates both science and theology could place God as the ’cause’ of the configuration of mathematics, quantum laws, etc. as well as the low-entropy state of the pre-Big Bang universe.”
Hazelnut Notes 