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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 theists do not deny that God’s knowledge is coextensive with reality. What they deny is that the future is entirely definite; it cannot, therefore, be exhaustively known.24 At the same time, open theists have an exalted view of God’s intelligence. According to Boyd, God’s perspective on the future encompasses the entire range of possibilities, and he sees each one as clearly as if it there were no alternatives.25 Consequently, God not only knows what cannot fail to come to pass, he knows what
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