Theologian and philosopher Thomas Jay Oord joins me to discuss God after deconstruction, a topic important to metamodern Christianity as well as the title of his new book with Tripp Fuller. We talk about the relationship of deconstruction and postmodernism, Tom's personal story of multiple deconstructions, and the path beyond deconstruction through open and relational theology.
0:00 Introduction
2:08 Meanings of Deconstruction: Relationship with Postmodernism
12:10 Reconstruction, Not Return: Towards a God "After Deconstruction"
15:55 Tom's Deconstruction Story: Moving through the Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern
25:54 Stages of Faith and Unfaith: The Direction of Growth as the Movement towards God
33:48 Reconstructing Christianity: Love beyond Certainty and Definitions
43:45 Open and Relational Theology
47:48 A Living, Changing God
55:27 An Evolving, Learning God
1:02:14 Jesus after Deconstruction
1:04:05 Relating across the Deconstructive Divide
1:11:42 Going Deeper
