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Trinity, Temporality, and Open Theism

Philosophia, 2007
A number of thinkers today, including open theists, find reasons to attribute temporality to God. According to Robert W. Jenson, the Trinity is indispensable to a Christian concept of God, and divine temporality is essential to the meaning of the Trinity. Following the lead of early Christian thought, Jenson argues that the “persons” of the Trinity are
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Examining Problems and Assumptions: An Update on Criticisms of Open Theism

Dialog, 2008
Abstract:  Open theism, a form of relational theology, has generated a host of criticisms. I examine some of the recent criticisms by analyzing several that center around biblical, doctrinal and philosophical problems. I show how many criticisms miss the mark by failing to recognize and address the underlying assumptions held by open theists.
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Divine Temporality in Open Theism

2021
This article is about how eternity is understood in "open theism", which opens an important area of discussion in the analytical philosophy of religion on the compatibility of the God’s knowledge and human freedom, and basically points to the temporal openness of God. Open theism interprets eternity as divine temporality.
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Open Theism and the Contingent A Priori

Mind
Abstract Theological fatalists hold that divine omniscience is incompatible with free will. The most prominent argument for fatalism involves the premiss that in the remote past, god already knew what you would do today. In a recent paper in this journal, Fabio Lampert proposes a variant of this argument that only requires that god ...
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Molinism, open theism, and soteriological luck

Religious Studies, 2010
AbstractIt is sometimes claimed by open theists that, on Molinism, God controls who is saved and who is damned and that, as a consequence, God's judgement of us is unjust. While this charge is usually lumped under the problem of evil, it could easily be classified under the problem of soteriological luck.
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Philosophy and the Bible: The Case of Open Theism

Philosophy and Literature, 2014
Does God know what people will freely do? An obvious source to consult is the Bible—which is what the philosophers who debate about open theism do. They agree that God is omniscient. However, open theists insist that God does not know what we will freely do, and the other side disagrees. The problem is that both sides seem to misread the Bible in order
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Open theism: does God risk or hope?

Religious Studies, 2006
Open theists have generally affirmed that God exercises general sovereignty, seeking to achieve an overall providential goal related to our freely choosing to love Him, though the path to that goal is uncertain. This understanding of God's relationship to the world has the implication that God risks failure in achieving His purpose, since His success ...
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Generic open theism and some varieties thereof

Religious Studies, 2008
AbstractThe goal of this paper is to facilitate ongoing dialogue between open and non-open theists. First, I try to make precise what open theism is by distinguishing the core commitments of the position from other secondary and optional commitments. The result is a characterization of ‘generic open theism’, the minimal set of commitments that any open
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Open Theism and Other Models of Divine Providence

2012
In this paper I define ‘open theism’ as a version of ‘broadly classical theism’ distinguished by commitment to a causally, epistemically, and providentially open future. After clarifying open theism, I then compare and contrast the open theistic model of divine providence with its chief competitors: theological determinism, Molinism, and process theism.
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Fatalism and Bivalence. Can be Theism Really Open?

2018
In this paper, we consider the prospects of a particular response to the arguments for logical and theological fatalism: the thesis that there is no true future and that the propositions concerning the future have no truth-value. The difficulties of this position are stressed: on the logical level, the negation of the intuitive principle of bivalence ...
Ciro De Florio, Aldo Frigerio
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