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A Video Introduction to Open Theism

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Here’s a video clip on Open Theism from Greg’s sessions with Travis Reed with The Work of the People. What is Open Theism? Open Theists affirm that God knows all of reality perfectly, so Open Theism really is about the nature and content of the future. Does the future contain…

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What is Open Theism?

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Open Theism is the view that God chose to create a world that included free agents, and thus a world where possibilities are real. The future is pre-settled, to whatever degree God wants to pre-settle it and to whatever degree the inevitable consequences of the choices of created agents have…

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Molinism and Open Theism – Part I

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…I’ll raise yet another critique as a segue into discussing Open Theism (or better, the Open View of the Future, for as we’ll see, the issue is not about the nature of God or of his knowledge, but the nature of the future in the world he created). I promise…

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An Odd Seminar And Interesting Debate

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…Paul Helseth represented the “omni-causal” view (Calvinism), William Lane Craig represented the “Middle Knowledge ” view (Molinism); I represented the “open” view (Open Theism), and Ron Highfield represented “the comprehensive supervision” view. The trouble is, no one had ever heard of the “comprehensive supervision” view! It turns out it’s the…

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Drumming, Openness, Providence and Whatever

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…omniscient God must by definition know the future as eternally and exhaustively settled is demonstrably false. God could create a world with an open future if he wanted to. The unique claim of Open Theism is that, not only is this kind of world possible, but scripture, experience and sound…

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Open2013

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…the opening address on Thursday night, and John Sanders and Tom Oord, two renowned leaders of Open Theology, will give keynote addresses on Friday and Saturday. This conference is going to be a unique, informative, motivational and exciting time! While there have been plenty of academic discussions of Open Theism

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A Very Brief History of Open Theism

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…Gospel Plan of Salvation puts the Open View of the future on center stage. This book was widely used as a theology textbook in the Stone-Campbell movement. On top of this, the Methodist professor and chancellor of Ohio Weslyean University, L. D. McCabe, wrote several books espousing Open Theism on…

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FAQs

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…future is partly “open.” But the church has never made beliefs like this a test for orthodoxy. There are a number of people in church history who have held to an open view of the future, and none were accused of heresy on this account. (See Isn’t Open Theism outside…

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IV Church History

…Belief in Redemption: Concepts of Salvation From the New Testament to the Present Time (SPCK, 1979) 2 Historical Advocates of the Open View of the Future Note: These are works that espouse an open view of the future (what is today generally known as “Open Theism”) prior to the 20th…

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Open Theism Timeline

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Open Theism Timeline by Tom Lukashow An argument that is frequently raised against the open view is that it is a recent innovation. Paul Eddy had discovered Calcidius, a fifth century advocate, and I and others knew of L.D. McCabe and Billy Hibbard, two 19th century advocates. But that was…

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Isn’t Open Theism outside of historic orthodoxy?

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…professor and chancellor of Ohio Weslyean University, L. D. McCabe, wrote several books espousing Open Theism on biblical as well as philosophical grounds. At the turn of the century the view was espoused by Finnis Dennings Dake, author of the famous and influential Dakes Annotated Bible. The view had occsional…

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Open Theism: A Basic Introduction

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On Monday and Tuesday, Greg explained Molinism and contrasted it against the open view of the future. (Click here for part 1). Because many see the open view as a limited view of God, it’s helpful to be clear that this has less to do with the nature of God…

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Notes from the Conference

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…will (certainly) do x and false that I will not (certainly) do x. So, I argued, only the God of Open Theism is truly omniscient, for only this God knows the truth value of ALL meaningful propositions. Open Theism is the only view that empowers God to know that some…

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A Christus Victor AND Penal Substitution View of the Atonement?

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…debate over Open Theism, had dinner with some staff and students discussing faith and politics, gave a talk on “The Myth of a Christian Nation,” taught a fun class on Open Theism and then gave the chapel sermon on Being the Church. The debate on Open Theism was especially fun…

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Greg Boyd’s Academic Vita

…Pilgrimage,” in Semper Reformandum: Studies in Honour of Clark H. Pinnock, eds. S. Porter and A. Cross (Paternoster Press, 2003) “The Open Theism View,” in Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views, ed. Jim Beilby and Paul Eddy (InterVarsity Press 2001). “The Rebuttal Evidence: Is the Jesus of History the Same as the…

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Dealing With Objections to Open Theism, Part II

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Image by Tau Zero via Flickr There are four major objections to Open Theism. In this post, we are dealing with the third and fourth. (See yesterday’s post to read about the first two.) Objection #3: God cannot foreknow only some of the future. It is often argued that for…

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The Future of Theology

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…problems (e.g., in the Person and Work of Jesus Christ). When so-called “open theism” first appeared among evangelicals in the late 20th century it had some serious defects. What was called open theism had been proposed before and those defects had hindered its acceptance by many sympathetic people. Greg Boyd,…

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Is Open Theism Incompatible With a Chalcedonian Christology?

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…classical theists – are rethinking the concept of “nature.” It is at least as much in question as are the concepts of impassibility and immutability. In this light, it’s clearly difficult to argue that any given theological position – including Open Theism — is intrinsically inconsistent with the Chalcedonian Christology….

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How does an Open Theist explain all the prophecies fulfilled in the life of Jesus?

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…2:14-15). How does an Open Theist explain this, because Open Theism holds that future free actions cannot be foreknown? Answer: Even if we grant that the specific things done to Jesus that “fulfill scripture” had to happen (which I’ll argue against in a moment), this would not present any difficultly…

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An Open Orthodoxy

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Sharon Mollerus via Compfight Our friends Tom Belt and Dwayne Polk recently started a blog called An Open Orthodoxy. This is going to be something you’ll want to follow. Really smart guys with something to say. They posted this clarification on the defining claim and core convictions of open theism

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