Open Theism from Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion
Short summary of Open Theism
Short summary of Open Theism
Overview of and arguments in support of open theism. Key issues that have been raised in evangelicalism
Jazz is a good illustration of what God’s relationship to us is like.
Overview of open theism from 2021.
Many thinkers believe we must begin our reflections on God with the concept of being as a a box into which all existing things are placed. This results in many problems. However, we can begin our reflections on God in a different place.
Ways open theists interpret biblical predictions. I’ve written in The God Who Risks that most biblical prophecies do not contain predictions of future events. Prophecies are most often about challenging people to walk the path of God. Yet, there are statements in the Bible that predict or seem to predict specific future events. These passages […]
I am who I am is a promise to be with Moses and the people, not an abstract philosophical statement.
Oord claims to have killed the idea of omnipotence. I give arguments why his reasons are not successful.
To say that God is “outside” of time depends on the metaphor that time is a container but this is not the way we should understand time.
Simple foreknowledge has catastrophic problems and the attempts to resuscitate it have failed. It is time to move on and affirm either dynamic omniscience, middle knowledge, or theological determinism.