Gregory S Gorsuch

Semi-retired Researcher, Theology, Faculty Member

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Primary discipline: Interdisciplinary Theology. My life is a joyful cycling between entrepreneurial adventures, academics, and directing a non-profit.

My specific interest: Perichoresis as postmodern ontology, and the exploration of analogia spiritus. Broader research concerns: Interdisciplinary Theology, Postmodern Theology, Pneumatology, perichoresis/analogia spiritus, and Theology and Science. Background interest: Developmental Theory, Literary Critical Theory, Social Theory, Communications Theory, Physics (my first undergraduate major), and last but not least, Trinitarian Theology.
Supervisors: PhD Supervisor: Kevin Vanhoozer. Secondary PhD Readers: James Loder, Ray Anderson and Fergus Kerr

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A Christian Pluralistic Hypothesis: To Bonhoeffer and beyond—A World Christianity

Religions, Dec 20, 2023

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

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A Christian Pluralistic Hypothesis: To Bonhoeffer and beyond-A World Christianity

by Gregory S Gorsuch and Greg Gorsuch

Religions, 2024

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Perichoresis and Projection: A Response to Kilby's Trinitarian Minimalism.

Perichoresis Theological Journal, 2023

The use of perichoresis by Miroslav Volf (1998) and others spring from significant themes within ... more The use of perichoresis by Miroslav Volf (1998) and others spring from significant themes within the Scriptures, most notably from Christ's prayer that reveals the entire divine-human relationship as filial in nature based on a mutuality of how they relate: 'I pray. .. that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; in order that they may be one in us' (John 17:21). This predicates mutuality, not in the divine 'transcendence into the substance of being,' but on the shared character of relationality, perichoresis, experienced within the immanent Trinity and progressively reflected within human social relations. Karen Kilby concludes otherwise that any consideration of perichoresis outside of expressing the mystery of relations within the immanent Trinity is problematic, ultimately only mirroring human social relations. This essay argues that accurate reflections of perichoresis are increasingly observable within social relations and emerging within various disciplines of thought that then bring greater coherence and meaning to the Scriptures, theology, and the faith community. Using a perichoretic ontology, this essay will provide significant meaning to Matthew 12:32 (otherwise considered meaningless) and other passages. If a perichoretic ontology subsequently transforms our understanding of Christ's redemptive action in the world and promises to resolve many historically persistent theological anomalies, the notion of perichoresis must rise within the theological project.

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Perichoresis as a Hermeneutical Key to Ontology: Social Constructionism, Kierkegaard, and Trinitarian Theology

Perichoresis Theological Journal, 2022

If humans are created in the image of a trinitarian God, then we might consider that the fundamen... more If humans are created in the image of a trinitarian God, then we might consider that the fundamental ontology of humans would be relational, furthermore to some degree perichoretic. If perichoresis is somehow reflected in human relations (notwithstanding all Creation), perichoresis should be evident analogically in our social relations, theology, and various disciplines of thought. This relational concept of the Church Fathers failed to be further developed because the concept of the Trinity fell from theological focus over the centuries. Today subtle but radical changes are occurring in the field of social psychology and communications theory. Whereas it was once common for modern paradigms to dominate the field, social constructionists have begun to react against the preponderance of typically modern themes as the primacy of the subject or ontological discourse framed exclusively in the language of subject-subject. On the other hand, their work offers a unique opportunity for Chri...

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