Open Future
The Logical Hexagon Made Simple
Category: Essays, General
Tags: Free Will, Open Future, Open Theism, Philosophy
Topics: Defending the Open View, Free Will and the Future, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
by: Greg Boyd The Hexagaon in a Nutshell For those of you who don’t have the twenty to thirty minutes it will probably take to read this essay but who nevertheless would like to have…
Boyd’s Bad Ass Tattoo
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Open Future, Open Theism
Topics: Free Will and the Future, Open Theism
by: Greg Boyd In the process of working through a philosophical issue surrounding the openness of the future around twenty years ago, I and two friends (Alan Rhoda and Tom Belt) ended up creating the…
How Much of the Future is Settled? How Much is Open? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Free Will, Future, Omniscience, Open Future, Open Theism
Greg considers the mathematical nature of determinacy. Episode 566 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0566.mp3
Could the God of Open Theism Have Foreknown the Crucifixion was Going to Happen? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: An Open Orthodoxy, Crucifixion, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Objections to Open Theism, Open Future, Open Theism, Predestination
Greg talks about a really really really smart and good God in a really really really bad world against a not-quite-as-smart adversary. Episode 540 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0540.mp3
How People Misunderstand Open Theism
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, Divine Foreknowledge, Free Will, freedom, Future, Open Future, Open Theism
Topics: Free Will and the Future, Open Theism What it is and is not
Open theism holds that, because agents are free, the future includes possibilities (what agents may and may not choose to do). Since God’s knowledge is perfect, open theists hold that God knows the future partly as a realm of…
Why Can’t God? Reflections on the Oord Interview (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Open Future, Open Theism, Process Theology, Thomas Oord, Tom Oord
Greg reflects on his interview with Thomas Jay Oord. Episode 503 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0503.mp3
Podcast: The Making of God of the Possible
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God of the Possible, Open Future, Open Theism
Greg talks about making his book “God of the Possible,” then offers his initial thoughts on Thomas Oord’s book “God Can’t.” http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0468.mp3
Podcast: If the Future is Open, How Do You Explain Prophecy?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Objections to Open Theism, Open Future, Open Theism
Greg considers prophecy through the lens of open theism. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0448.mp3
Podcast: Is Open Theism an Accommodation?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: An Open Orthodoxy, Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Divine Accommodation, Open Future, Open Theism
Or for that matter is accommodation an accommodation? Greg talks about things that impact God. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0407.mp3
Podcast: Where Does Omniscience Fit In Within Open Theism?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Objections to Open Theism, Omniscience, Open Future, Open Theism
Greg pontificates on what God knows. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0280.mp3
Podcast: What is the Difference Between Open Theism and Process Thought?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Objections to Open Theism, Open Future, Open Theism, Process Theology, Trinity and Process
Greg openly processes the major differences between Open Theism and Process Thought. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0218.mp3
Podcast: Is an Open Future World a Logically Possible World?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Open Future, Open Theism
Greg gets technical in this abstract, yet profound, introduction to an open theist’s interpretation of the square of opposition. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0217.mp3
Podcast: What Does God Actually DO in the World?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Open Future, Open Theism
Greg discusses what a God, who takes his hands off of us, who gives up control for us, who accommodates for us, actually does in the world. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0215.mp3
Podcast: If the Future is Open How Can We Know God Wins in the End?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Objections to Open Theism, Open Future, Open Theism
Greg discusses the open future and speculates on how God can still be assured victory in the end. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0069.mp3
Podcast: Defending the Manifesto (6 of 10)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Future, Molinism, Open Future, Open Theism
Greg responds to challenges by William Lane Craig from Craig’s podcast “Reasonable Faith.“ Greg denies Molinism and discusses the logic of possibility. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0061.mp3
Does God Exist Outside of Time?
Category: General
Tags: Jeremy Jernigan, Open Future, Open Theism, Possibility, time
Topics: Free Will and the Future
Our friend Jeremy Jernigan wrote something recently that we wanted to share with you today. Jeremy is the author of Redeeming Pleasure and Teaching Pastor at Central Christian Church in Arizona. He blogs regularly at…
Is exhaustively settled foreknowledge essential to God’s identity
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Divine Foreknowledge, Foreknowledge, Open Future, Open Theism
In this episode Greg discusses several passages in Isaiah that imply God’s foreknowledge is a primary differentiator between Isaiah’s God and all other gods. Links: Greg’s book: “God of the Possible“ http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0023.mp3
An Omni-Resourceful God
Category: General
Tags: Attributes of God, Open Future, Open Theism
Topics: Defending the Open View
It is quite common for us to talk about the attributes of God as omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing) and omni-present (present everywhere), but what about God’s unlimited resourcefulness? Consider the story of Moses’ commission in…
A Video Introduction to Open Theism
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Greg Boyd, Open Future, Open Theism, The Work of the People, Travis Reed
Topics: Open Theism What it is and is not
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…
Open2013 Reflections
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Greg Boyd, John Sanders, Open Future, Open Theism, ReKnew, T.C. Moore, Theodicy, Theology, Tom Belt, Tom Oord
Both participants and leaders share about what was happening at Open2013 and some of their thoughts on Open Theism. Listen in and hear from Greg Boyd, John Sanders, Tom Oord, T. C. Moore, Jessica Kelley…