Ron Saari March 29, 1999 Dear Fellow BGC Pastor, Greetings, This letter reflects our apprehension regarding the “exhaustive foreknowledge” resolution. In February, our churches received in the mail a packet of materials prepared by a group of “concerned Pastors” about a resolution for the annual meeting in June of 1999 in Florida. We as…
George M. Porter B.R.S., B.A., M.A., M.Litt., D.Phil. A Paper Prepared for Presentation to the Forum of The Oxford Society of Scholars Meeting in Rewley House/Kellogg College, University of Oxford 12-14 January 2004 Printed with permission Lorenzo Dow McCabe and Some Neglected Nineteenth Century Roots of Open Theism in North America ‘Men’s courses will foreshadow…
The Christianity Today interview with Royce Gruenler, “God at Risk” (March 5), contained so many errors concerning the openness of God theology that we are forced to wonder whether he really intended to give an accurate and honest account of our views. We hope he did intend this, but if so he failed miserably. Gruenler…
Clark H. Pinnock This article is reproduced here with the permission of Worship Leader Magazine. It was published by them in their November / December 2000 issue. They thought we might like it, so they sent it along. Note: Open Theism is not a Pentecostal theology, though Dr. Clark Pinnock, who is a Pentecostal,…
Clark Pinnock Theology Today; Princeton; Apr 1996; Volume: 53 Issue: 1 Start Page: 15 ISSN: 00405736 Abstract: Pinnock dicusses the sovereignty of God and the many challenges to it. Given the atrocities in the Holocaust and Cambodia, it is difficult to say that God rules over and controls history. Full Text: © Theology Today Apr…
Gregory A. Boyd, Thomas Belt, Alan Rhoda It has traditionally been believed that omniscience means God’s knowledge of the future may be expressed exclusively in terms of what either will or will not come to pass. One common line of reasoning supporting this traditional belief is the following: P1: All propositions are either true or…
William Hasker The affirmation of libertarian free will immediately negates the divine determinism that is characteristic of classical theism. But it also (though this is less widely recognized) negates the doctrine of God as timelessly eternal. To assert that humans possess libertarian freedom implies that there is a fundamental, ontological difference between the future and…
William Hasker The notion of divine repentance is pivotal for the differences between classical theism and open theism. If God repents, then God undergoes change. If so, then God is not absolutely unchangeable, and certainly is not timeless. Divine repentance is closely associated with expressions of divine sorrow and regret over a decision previously made,…
William Hasker This article was taken by permission from Process Studies, “The Problem of Evil in Process Theism and Classical Freewill Theism,” Vol. 29, Number 2, Fall-Winter, 2000: pp. 194-208. No topic in the philosophy of religion seems to be so universally engaging as the problem of evil. This problem can be counted on to…
William Hasker In his reply William Hasker urges that while the theological tradition is worthy of respect, the kind of deference to tradition insisted on by Freddoso is excessive and unreasonable; in the past, such deference might well have prevented theological developments now recognized as beneficial and important. It may be desirable to characterize divine…