{"id":1339,"date":"2010-08-05T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/paganportal\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2010-08-05T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:54:06","slug":"pagan-theology-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/pantheon\/2010\/08\/pagan-theology-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Pagan Theology Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>For the next few weeks on the Pagan Portal at Patheos we\u2019re going to be engaging in the discussion of Pagan theology. Who are the Gods? What is their nature? Their origin? How do we account for a plurality of religious experience? What is our relationship to the Gods? Why do we exist? Is there a greater purpose?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1340\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/paganportal\/2010\/08\/05\/pagan-theology-series\/40227_420239942690_511407690_5340269_2773721_n\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1340\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/paganportal\/files\/2010\/08\/40227_420239942690_511407690_5340269_2773721_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"233\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve started off the series with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/Mana-for-Heaven-Bonewits-Polytheology-and-American-Capitalism.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Mana for Heaven: Bonewits Polytheology and American Capitalism<\/a> by Alison Shaffer, a comparison of the \u201cworship bargain\u201d to multi-national corporations. P. Sufenas Virius Lupus delves into syncretism in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/Polytheology-Syncretism-Process-Theology-and-Polyamorotheism.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Polytheology: Syncretism, Process Theology and \u201cPolyamorotheism\u201d<\/a>. I try to hash out a rationale for the plurality of religious expression and experience in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/Polytheistic-Paradox-Resolving.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Resolving the Polytheistic Paradox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to join the dialogue! This is an exciting series and we hope it can inspire discourse about Pagan theology.If you are interested in contributing to the series, either because you have a viewpoint not yet expressed here, or want to respond in a more in-depth way to the articles already posted, please feel free to drop me a line: sfoster at patheos.com.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next few weeks on the Pagan Portal at Patheos we\u2019re going to be engaging in the discussion of Pagan theology. Who are the Gods? What is their nature? Their origin? How do we account for a plurality of religious experience? What is our relationship to the Gods? Why do we exist? 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