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• More than just an address change...

  by Robert Bruce Kelsey October 31, 2015
  (( For those who have followed my posts about the distressed student, I thought I would offer as an update an extract from this night’s journal ‘conversation’ with god. )) One week of freedom, and with each day the tension ebbs from the cheeks, the sparkle intensifies in her eyes....

• Got faith?

  by Robert Bruce Kelsey October 2, 2015
  I confess I don’t know what it means to “have faith.” If it means believing that one’s god is still there, still cares, when things go wrong, that implicitly suggests that the god might not be there, might not care, might not even exist. Isn’t having faith of that sort ...
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• It's commitment, not doctrine

  by Robert Bruce Kelsey September 19, 2015
  Faith is so much easier when you are in control, when it is just you making a charitable donation online, or counting to ten lest you say something arrogant or hurtful, or reminding yourself at 3am that your god has a plan for the morning you have been up all night dreading. It is even easier when y...
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• Kenosis Theology and Communal Incarnation – Part 3

  by Robert Bruce Kelsey September 4, 2015
  Emergence, Kenosis, and Communal IncarnationIf the view of kenosis proposed in the previous Part is even marginally correct, it has three theologically significant implications. First, if god is love that self-actualizes, then when humans act lovingly they embody, they actualize, they incarnate, wha...

• Kenosis Theology and Communal Incarnation – Part 2

  by Robert Bruce Kelsey August 31, 2015
  Kenosis and Scientific Theology Was Kenosis a One-Time Event?McCall’s application is a good example of how emergence and kenosis are used in contemporary theology. The problem for us here is that it seems to close the door on kenotic experience for anyone other than Jesus. But that’s ea...

• Kenosis Theology and Communal Incarnation – Part 1

  by Robert Bruce Kelsey August 28, 2015
  Kenosis Theology and Communal Incarnation – Part 1 Kenosis: Linking the Divine and Mundane What Is Kenosis?The source text for kenosis is Paul’s Philippians 2:5-7: “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equalit...

• "To stand, amidst the Grace...."

  by Robert Bruce Kelsey July 20, 2015
  [the quote references a prior entry on my personal blog, http://diversionaerie.tumblr.com/post/123924487481/answering-the-kings-cry]   Be of the same mind as Christ Jesus, said Paul. The Deep Incarnation school of modern kenosis theology believes that in the Incarnation God as Trinity inserte...

• Questionable Experimental Psychology, Oversimplified "Religion"

  by Robert Bruce Kelsey July 16, 2015
  Let me say at the outset that I believe experimental psychology may have much to teach us about religious behavior and, at least indirectly, about the phenomenal experience of people of faith (any faith). But is has to be sound experimentation. And that isn’t always the case. My current &lsqu...