Thomas Jay Oord

Thomas Jay Oord
Born	(1965-11-10) November 10, 1965 (age 59) Othello, Washington[citation needed]
Nationality	American
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity
Academic background
Alma mater	Northwest Nazarene College Nazarene Theological Seminary Claremont Graduate University
Doctoral advisor	David Ray Griffin
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy theology
School or tradition	Open theism Open and Relational Theology
Institutions	Northwest Nazarene University
Website	thomasjayoord.com

Thomas Jay Oord (born 1965) is a theologian, philosopher, and multidisciplinary scholar who directs doctoral programs in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary and directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He formerly taught for sixteen years as a tenured professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho and as a philosophy professor at Eastern Nazarene College. Oord is the author or editor of more than thirty books and hundreds of articles. He is known for his contributions to research on love, open theism, process theism, open and relational theology, postmodernism, queer theology, the relationship between religion and science, Wesleyan, holiness, Nazarene theology.^[1]