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…
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…
John Sanders Let me provide a brief overview of the history of the debate within evangelicalism. For many years the core ideas of openness had been buried in academic journals and I thought it was time to bring them to the attention of a broader public so I organized a team and we published The…
John Sanders Introduction: Overview of the issues and summary of Open Theism. Currently, in North American evangelicalism, there is a controversy regarding the nature of God and divine providence. The 1970’s witnessed the beginning of a prolonged reassessment of certain traditional divine attributes by some prominent evangelical philosophers. They reformulated, or even rejected, attributes such…
Books containing opposing viewpoints that challenge open theism. Still Sovereign: Contemporary Perspectives on Election, Foreknowledge, and Grace By Thomas R. Schreiner Scripture says that God is sovereign over all things, yet we have free will to determine our actions. So to what extent is God supreme? In this masterful examination of the sovereignty of God,…
Books containing open theistic perspectives. Perspectives on the Doctrine of God: Four Views Edited By Bruce Ware Perspectives on the Doctrine of God presents in counterpoint form four basic common beliefs on the doctrine of God that have developed over the course of church history with a goal of determining which view is most faithful…
Bibliography on Open Theism by John Sanders (last updated 4/2013) This bibliography is arranged in five categories: (1) multi-views works, (2) works supporting open theism, (3) works engaging open theism, (4) works against open theism, and (5) doctoral dissertations and masters theses engaging open theism. See also: The bibliography compiled by Thomas Oord on…
Compiled by Thomas Oord. Below are titles of books, articles, essays, and dissertations pertaining to “relational theology.” The list includes works on open theism, process theology, and others that are either for or against a relational understanding of God. The list is limited to materials published about a decade prior to 2002. Basinger, David. The…