In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with chapter 7 of his new book A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God & Creation as he discusses God as a loving Spirit of uncontrolling love

A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God and Creation is now available for purchase in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats.

In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with chapter 6 of his new book A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God & Creation as he discusses the challenges of reconciling a God of love with the ways in which God has traditionally been understood as omnipotent.

A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God and Creation is now available for purchase in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats.

After a hiatus, ORTShorts has returned with a series of episodes engaging with Dr. Oord's new book, A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God & Creation

In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with the chapter 5 of the book as he discusses how to understand how God relates to creation as a universal, relational loving Spirit. Rather than understanding God as a being with a localized body or being itself, Dr. Oord proposes a God whose essence is love as a being a dynamic Spirit who is always becoming in experiential relationship with creation.

A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God and Creation is now available for purchase in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats.

After a hiatus, ORTShorts has returned with a series of episodes engaging with Dr. Oord's new book, A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God & Creation

In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with the chapter 4 of the book as he discusses the implications of a God who is a universal, bodiless, active Spirit with both material and mental dimensions.

A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God and Creation is now available for purchase in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats.

After a hiatus, ORTShorts has returned with a series of episodes engaging with Dr. Oord's new book, A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God & Creation

In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with the chapter 3 of the book as he discusses his definition of love and identifying love as the orienting concern of this systematic theology.

A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God and Creation is now available for purchase in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats.

After a hiatus, ORTShorts has returned with a series of episodes engaging with Dr. Oord's new book, A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God & Creation

In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with the second chapter of the book as he discusses the reasons for love and how traditional arguments for God's existence, while having some merit, are not finally convincing for many.

A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God and Creation is now available for purchase in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats.

After a hiatus, ORTShorts has returned with a series of episodes engaging with Dr. Oord's new book, A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God & Creation

In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with the first chapter of the book as he discusses the primacy of love and the reasons a book of this kind has not been previously written.

A Systematic Theology of Love - Volume 1: God and Creation is now available for purchase in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats.

In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with some key paradigm shifts compatible with Open and Relational Theology in the book Evolution and Divine Love: The Eternal Becoming of God, Soul, and Matter written by Gaudiya Vaishnava monk, scholar and spiritual teacher Swami Bhakti Pranaya Padmanabha.

Drawing from Hindu Devotional Vedanta, psychology, modern science, and mystical insights from multiple traditions, this bold and tender work reimagines the spiritual journey as a process of ever-deepening relationship—with the Divine, with the world, and with our evolving selves.