that so many recent evangelical Calvinists seem to endorse a similar divine ontology to that of open and process theism. In particular, it seems that the belief that there is both absolute and relative actuality in God is no longer unique to process theists. Many recent Calvinists advance their own version of the absolute-relative distinction by distinguishing between God’s essence, which is said not to change, and other contingent—thus, “relative”—aspects of His being. It is in the contingent aspects