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In God the Father Almighty, Erickson develops a sturdy exposition of the doctrine of God, beginning with an introductory discussion of the doctrine’s importance. He then interacts extensively with criticisms brought against the traditional view of God by pluralism, process theology, and free will theism. After evaluating the positive and negative elements in each of these views, Erickson offers a...

over the universe and completely sovereign, unmoved by anything that transpires within it. He is timelessly eternal, immutable, impassible, and absolute in his foreknowledge, and everything comes to pass because he has planned it from all eternity.14 This, the free will theists contend, is the view held by large numbers of Christians: “We may think of God primarily as an aloof monarch, removed from the contingencies of the world, unchangeable in every aspect of being, aware of everything that will
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