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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...

than standing above or apart from it—and as variously delighted and saddened by human decisions and behavior.10 As Pinnock describes it, this perspective provides a helpful corrective, drawn from the Bible, to the tendency to emphasize divine transcendence over divine immanence.11 A social view of the Trinity provides a basis for affirming both God’s self-sufficient fullness and God’s openness to the world in overflowing love.12 The difference between them is not whether God is all-powerful, but
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