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The Future of Open Theism: From Antecedents to Opportunities is unavailable, but you can change that!

Open theism has reached its adolescence. How did it get here? And where does it go from here? Since IVP’s publication of The Openness of God in 1994, evangelical theology has grappled with the alternative vision of the doctrine of God that open theism offers. Responding to critics who claim that it proposes a truncated version of God that fails to account for Scripture and denies many of the...

Open theism first attracted the attention of Christian theologians some twenty-five years ago when IVP published a symposium volume by five conservative scholars under the title, The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God.1 Their contributions explored the topic of God’s relation to the world from a distinct vantage point with five specific concerns in mind—its biblical, historical, theological, philosophical and
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