To Change Your Mind: Healing Prayer (Thomas Jay Oord) (#7)
Feb 4, 2019
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Thomas Jay Oord, a leading theologian in Open & Relational Theology, discusses his changing beliefs about God's healing. They explore topics like the role of prayer in healing, the focus of salvation, childhood beliefs about the supernatural, and the idea of God's power. They also reflect on their evolving perspectives on prayer and intercession, and the concept of essential kenosis.
God's love requires cooperation for healing, it is not single-handed.
Healing involves various agents and forces beyond prayer alone.
Healing prayer acknowledges external factors and rejects blame based on lack of faith.
Deep dives
God's Healing is Inherently Relational
God's love is uncontrolling and requires cooperation from creation in the healing process. God always wants to heal, but healing is not single-handed.
God Uses Various Means for Healing
God uses not only prayers, but also physicians, medicines, and other agents and forces in the world to bring about healing.
The Problem of Selective Miracles
Prayers for healing are not always answered, and this view acknowledges that healing may be influenced by other factors that are beyond our control.
Avoiding Blaming the Victim
This view rejects placing blame on individuals for not being healed due to lack of faith, emphasizing that healing is not solely reliant on our actions.
Balancing Individual and Communal Aspects of Healing
This understanding of healing prayer takes into account the communal, social, and relational aspects, recognizing that our prayers have an impact on others and the natural world.
The first in an ongoing occasional "to change your mind" series. Thomas Jay Oord is one of the leading theologians in the world of Open & Relational Theology (which includes Open Theism, Process Theology and more), and his beliefs about God's healing, and whether or not we should pray for healing, have changed multiple times throughout his life.Reconstruct episode with Tom: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/thomas-oord-the-uncontrolling-love-of-god-s01e06/id1230794548?i=1000385677181&mt=2Open & Relational Reading Group with Tom & Tripp Fuller: http://openandrelationaltheology.com/"God Can't": https://smile.amazon.com/God-Cant-Believe-after-Tragedy/dp/1948609126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549081254&sr=8-1&keywords=thomas+jay+oord"The Uncontrolling Love of God": The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of ProvidenceBC Con, Dallas, Feb 15-17: badchristiancon.comJoin the Patreon for bonus episodes every month: patreon.com/dankochYHP Patron-only FB group: https://tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98Website: youhavepermissionpod.comJoin Dan's email list: dankochwords.comEmail Dan: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.comEpisode edited by Scott CangemiArtwork by http://sprungle.co/